https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169040 A Government servant directly recruited to a particular post cannot, as a disciplinary punishment, be reduced to a post lower than the one to which recruitment was made. Applying this principle, the Madras HC found that reducing a Record Clerk to the lower post of Office Assistant under Rule 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules was impermissible in law. The punishment was therefore unsustainable and was set aside. en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:07:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169040 A Government servant directly recruited to a particular post cannot, as a disciplinary punishment, be reduced to a post lower than the one to which recruitment was made. Applying this principle, the Madras HC found that reducing a Record Clerk to the lower post of Office Assistant under Rule 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules was impermissible in law. The punishment was therefore unsustainable and was set aside. Case-Laws VAT and Sales Tax Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169040