https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312060 Service regulations may permit the Chairman to act on an inquiry report and impose penalty for officers up to the rank of Superintending Engineer, but that power cannot be exercised in a way that extinguishes the employee's statutory appeal or representation. Where the disciplinary punishment is instead imposed by the Board, despite the regulations reserving that route of redress against the Chairman's order, the order is vitiated because the available hierarchical remedy is lost. The governing principle is that a higher authority may not impose punishment if doing so deprives the employee of the appellate safeguard expressly created by the service rules. en-us Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:02:11 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312060 Service regulations may permit the Chairman to act on an inquiry report and impose penalty for officers up to the rank of Superintending Engineer, but that power cannot be exercised in a way that extinguishes the employee's statutory appeal or representation. Where the disciplinary punishment is instead imposed by the Board, despite the regulations reserving that route of redress against the Chairman's order, the order is vitiated because the available hierarchical remedy is lost. The governing principle is that a higher authority may not impose punishment if doing so deprives the employee of the appellate safeguard expressly created by the service rules. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312060