The Patna High Court set aside departmental proceedings and an enquiry report against two Deputy Registrars of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, holding that the charge memo was issued without fresh approval of the Board of Management as required by Rule 14(3) of the CCS (CCA) Rules and Article 311.
Upholding the finding of guilt against a welfare-office clerk in a scholarship-funds defalcation case but finding his compulsory retirement “exorbitant,” the Patna High Court set aside the penalty and remanded the matter, noting that he was a new incumbent who signed documents under pressure after the wrongs had already been committed by his predecessors. Patna: […]
The bar under Article 311(1) of the Constitution is attracted only where an employee is dismissed or removed by an authority subordinate in rank to the one that appointed him, the Supreme Court held, restoring the 1983 removal of an RPSF constable after finding that the removing officer was of the same rank as the […]
