https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173856 In disciplinary proceedings, inordinate and unexplained delay in issuing a charge memo can justify quashing when it causes prejudice to the employee. Here, the alleged irregularity surfaced only after about ten years, and the explanation based on delayed audit was found unsatisfactory under the statutory scheme requiring annual accounts and audit. The Court balanced administrative discipline against the right to expeditious proceedings and held that allowing the enquiry to continue after such a long lapse would cause mental agony and hardship. The charge memo was quashed and the disciplinary proceedings could not continue. en-us Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:55:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173856 In disciplinary proceedings, inordinate and unexplained delay in issuing a charge memo can justify quashing when it causes prejudice to the employee. Here, the alleged irregularity surfaced only after about ten years, and the explanation based on delayed audit was found unsatisfactory under the statutory scheme requiring annual accounts and audit. The Court balanced administrative discipline against the right to expeditious proceedings and held that allowing the enquiry to continue after such a long lapse would cause mental agony and hardship. The charge memo was quashed and the disciplinary proceedings could not continue. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173856