https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308297 Under Rule 14(3) of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, the disciplinary authority must itself draw up or cause the charge-sheet to be drawn up, so approval limited to initiation of major penalty proceedings is not enough to validate issuance of the charge memo. Because the record showed no approval by the disciplinary authority for issuing the charge-sheet itself, the memo was treated as issued without jurisdiction and the challenge to the Tribunal's view failed. The writ petition therefore did not succeed, and the finding that the charge-sheet was invalid for want of proper approval remained undisturbed. en-us Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:26:29 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308297 Under Rule 14(3) of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, the disciplinary authority must itself draw up or cause the charge-sheet to be drawn up, so approval limited to initiation of major penalty proceedings is not enough to validate issuance of the charge memo. Because the record showed no approval by the disciplinary authority for issuing the charge-sheet itself, the memo was treated as issued without jurisdiction and the challenge to the Tribunal's view failed. The writ petition therefore did not succeed, and the finding that the charge-sheet was invalid for want of proper approval remained undisturbed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308297