https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190620 An oral disciplinary inquiry could not be treated as mandatory without first determining whether the employee had in fact failed to cooperate and without examining the effect of Regulation 68 of the Cooperative Federal Authority (Business) Regulations, 1976. If non-cooperation was established, the absence of a recorded oral inquiry would not by itself invalidate the dismissal, so the writ petition required fresh adjudication on the disputed facts. Long pendency of the disciplinary proceedings also did not justify closing the matter merely on delay, especially where the employee was not wholly responsible for the lapse of time and the charges were serious. The dismissal order and High Court judgment were set aside and the matter remitted. en-us Tue, 21 Feb 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:43:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190620 An oral disciplinary inquiry could not be treated as mandatory without first determining whether the employee had in fact failed to cooperate and without examining the effect of Regulation 68 of the Cooperative Federal Authority (Business) Regulations, 1976. If non-cooperation was established, the absence of a recorded oral inquiry would not by itself invalidate the dismissal, so the writ petition required fresh adjudication on the disputed facts. Long pendency of the disciplinary proceedings also did not justify closing the matter merely on delay, especially where the employee was not wholly responsible for the lapse of time and the charges were serious. The dismissal order and High Court judgment were set aside and the matter remitted. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Feb 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190620