2025 (11) TMI 292

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..... Heard Sri R.K. Ojha, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Shri Prashant Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Rahul Malviya, learned Standing Counsel, who appears for State-respondents. 2. The case of the writ petitioner is that on 16.01.2025, he was transferred as an Assistant Commissioner of State Tax from Meerut to Raebareli and he joined the post on 18.01.2025. Thereafter on 01....

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....y further time was accorded to the writ petitioner and thereafter on 23.08.2025, the inquiry report came to be submitted, the writ petitioner tendered his reply to the inquiry report on 29.09.2025 in response to the show cause notice dated 10.09.2025. 4. Learned counsel for the writ petitioner submits that first of all, the allegations sought to be levelled against the writ petitioner pursuant ....

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....erned, they are relatable to the allegations that the writ petitioner despite the lapsing of seven days' time had accorded further time. Submission is that once a party seeks time and proprietory also demands that there should be fair play in the decision making process. He further submits that the inquiry officer in the zeal of holding the charges to be proved without giving sufficient opport....

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....e rival parties as well as stand taken by them and looking into the fact that this Court is of the opinion that once a reply submitted to an inquiry officer to a show cause notice accompanied with the inquiry report then this Court has no reason to disbelieve that the same contentions so set-forth shall be decided in a logical manner strictly in accordance with law without skipping any of the cont....