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Issues: (i) whether the order quashing the respondent's suspension was liable to be interfered with; (ii) whether the order quashing the charge-sheet could be sustained.
Issue (i): whether the order quashing the respondent's suspension was liable to be interfered with.
Analysis: The suspension had continued for a substantial period and the disciplinary proceedings had not made material progress. In these circumstances, the Tribunal's decision to set aside the suspension did not warrant interference.
Conclusion: The quashing of the suspension order was upheld.
Issue (ii): whether the order quashing the charge-sheet could be sustained.
Analysis: The charge-sheet was not shown to suffer from want of authority or any inherent defect. The merits of the charges were yet to be examined in the departmental inquiry, and the Tribunal ought not to have gone into them at that stage merely because the suspension order was being set aside.
Conclusion: The quashing of the charge-sheet was set aside.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded only in part, leaving the suspension order undisturbed while restoring the disciplinary charge-sheet for consideration in accordance with law.
Ratio Decidendi: A charge-sheet in departmental proceedings cannot be quashed at the threshold in the absence of jurisdictional or inherent defect, and the merits of the charges should not be adjudicated before the disciplinary inquiry is concluded.
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