https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185791 Under the civil services and railway servants rules, "appointing authority" for disciplinary action was construed harmoniously with the definition and appointment provisions. The Supreme Court held that the relevant authority is the one empowered to make, or that actually made, the appointment through delegation for the concerned post or grade, not both the delegator and the delegate. The delegating superior was not treated as the appointing authority for disciplinary initiation merely because it retained other powers. Accordingly, disciplinary proceedings could validly be instituted by the delegated appointing authority, and the contrary view was rejected. en-us Tue, 10 Apr 1990 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:07:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185791 Under the civil services and railway servants rules, "appointing authority" for disciplinary action was construed harmoniously with the definition and appointment provisions. The Supreme Court held that the relevant authority is the one empowered to make, or that actually made, the appointment through delegation for the concerned post or grade, not both the delegator and the delegate. The delegating superior was not treated as the appointing authority for disciplinary initiation merely because it retained other powers. Accordingly, disciplinary proceedings could validly be instituted by the delegated appointing authority, and the contrary view was rejected. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 10 Apr 1990 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185791