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Issues: (i) Whether the termination of the lecturer's services was vitiated for breach of natural justice and want of enquiry under Section 6 of the Karnataka Private Educational Institutions (Discipline and Control) Act, 1975. (ii) Whether the impugned termination was stigmatic or only a termination simpliciter.
Issue (i): Whether the termination of the lecturer's services was vitiated for breach of natural justice and want of enquiry under Section 6 of the Karnataka Private Educational Institutions (Discipline and Control) Act, 1975.
Analysis: The record showed that the employee had sought leave for a specific higher study purpose subject to an undertaking, did not comply with the conditions of leave, did not join the intended course, did not rejoin duty when required, and replied to the show-cause notices before the final order was made. The Court treated the material facts as substantially admitted and held that where the misconduct and breach of undertaking are evident from the record and no worthwhile defence is offered, a further formal enquiry is not necessary merely as a ritual compliance.
Conclusion: The termination was not vitiated for breach of natural justice, and no separate enquiry was required on the facts of the case.
Issue (ii): Whether the impugned termination was stigmatic or only a termination simpliciter.
Analysis: The termination order was founded on the employee's non-compliance with the conditions of leave and failure to resume duty, and not on any imputation of misconduct carrying a punitive stigma. The Court further observed that even if any stigma could be inferred, the order would not be treated as such in the present proceedings.
Conclusion: The termination was a termination simpliciter and not a stigmatic order.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded, the High Court and Tribunal orders were set aside, and the termination order dated 26 February 1979 was upheld.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the material facts constituting breach of an undertaking and non-compliance with leave conditions are substantially admitted and the employee has been given adequate opportunity to respond, a formal enquiry under the governing statute is not indispensable, and a termination founded on such breach may be treated as a non-stigmatic termination simpliciter.
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