2024 (1) TMI 1152

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....Rajeev Kumar Gupta, Advocates and Mohan Pandey, AOR, for the Appellant. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, S/Shri Apurv S., Shubhangi Agarwal, Advocates and Milind Kumar, AOR, for the Respondent. ORDER The appellant is aggrieved by the order dated 16th May, 2011 passed by the Jodhpur Bench of the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan whereby the Division Bench of the High Court had reject....

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....thority passed an order of dismissal against the appellant from service for having absconded from 23rd February, 1989, without any information. After seven years, in the year 1998, the appellant preferred an appeal before the respondent No. 3 - Appellate Authority, assailing his dismissal order passed on 20th December, 1991. The said appeal was dismissed by the respondent No. 3 vide order dated 31....

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....port for duty. It was also observed that the departmental inquiry against the appellant had been conducted in accordance with law and the punishment imposed on him was in connection with the allegation of absence from duty as distinct from the criminal case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 in which the appellant claimed that he had been acquitted. 4. Pertinent....

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.... his service record. He further states that the appellant could not appear before the Inquiry Officer as he was not served with the chargesheet nor was the dismissal order ever served upon him. Lastly, it is stated that once the appellant has been acquitted in the criminal case, then the respondents ought not to have taken such a harsh view against him of dismissal from service. 7. We are ....