2022 (12) TMI 327

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.... JUSTICE T.S. SIVAGNANAM AND HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HIRANMAY BHATTACHARYYA Appearance:- Mr. K.K. Maity Mr. Tapan Bhanja .........................for the appellant Mr. Kaushik Dey ..........................for the respondent no.5 Mr. Shovendu Banerjee Mr. Soumyajit Mishra ............................ For the respondent JUDGMENT (Judgment of the Court was delivered by T.S. SIVAGNANAM,....

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....d 54. From the above paragraphs it is seen that the stand taken by the appellant before us stating that the authority has not relied upon any of the statements appears to be incorrect. Interestingly in paragraph 62 of the order while considering the request made by the respondents for cross-examination of 18 persons, the adjudicating authority states that he has not relied upon any of their statem....

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....s allowed in part and the order passed in the writ petition is modified by setting aside the order in original dated 14th June, 2019 and remanding the matter back to the adjudicating authority to pass a fresh order on merits and in accordance with law without placing any reliance on the statements recorded from those 18 persons. This direction be complied with within a period of eight weeks from t....