Supreme Court of India

The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Others v. Ch. Gandhi

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Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 19 February 2013

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid analysis, the order passed by the High Court that a double punishment has been imposed does not withstand scrutiny.

Judgment, page 36

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SERVICE LAW: Disciplinary proceedings - Penalty - Disciplinary proceedings initiated under unamended rule - Penalty imposed in terms of amended rule - Held: In the case at hand, the disciplinary proceeding was initiated by serving a charge-sheet for the purpose of imposition of a major penalty - Employee had no vested right to be imposed a particular punishment as envisaged under the unamended rules - Unamended r.9(vii) was only dealing with reduction or reversion, but stipulation of postponement of future increments has come by way of amendment - The same being a lesser punishment than the…

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