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2001 Supreme(Raj) 1097

Rajasthan High Court
Honble N.N. MATHUR & O.P. BISHNOI, JJ.
Smt. Sushila Nagar - Appellant
Versus
High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan Jodhpur - Respondents
D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 3897 of 2001
Decided On : October 05, 2001

Advocates Appeared:
Mahesh Bora,for Petitioner

Headnote:Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1958, Rule 16, Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 1955, Rule 29 & Constitution of India, Art. 235 – Justification of converting enquiry initiated u/Rule 17 to u/Rule 16 at the fag end of the enquiry – Held – By virtue of Article 235 of the Constitution the control over subordinate judiciary vests in High Court – C.C.A. Rules are applicable to the members of the RJS by virtue of Rule 29 of the Rules 1955 subject to Full Court Resolutions – As per Full Court Resolution dated 6.1.95, the Enquiry Judge is empowered to issue charge-sheet u/Rule 16 or 17 – Enquiry u/Rule 17 can be converted to Rule 16 and even de nova enquiry can be ordered on the same facts and substantially on the same charge – A Departmental Enquiry is to be distinguished from a criminal trial – The delinquent at the time of submission of reply to the statement of allegations can set up his case. (Paras 9 & 10)

       Applicability of these rules are subject tot he Resolutions of the Full Court. The Full Court of the Rajasthan High Court by a resolution dated 30.10.1971 in exercises of the powers conferred by Article 235 of the Constitution of India delegated the powers to the Honble Chief Justice for convenient transaction of business in the disciplinary matters. As per the said resolution, Honble the Chief Justice or the Administrative Judge is empowered to initiate disciplinary action against the judicial officers including the District Judges. The Administrative Judge or the Judge nominated acts as a disciplinary authority. However, the Full Court in its meeting held on 6.1.1995 amended the resolution dt. 30.10.71, whereby the Administrative Judge or the Judge nominated by the Honble Chief Justice, can issue chargesheet and conduct enquiry. The effect of the resolution is that now the judge nominated by Honble the Chief Justice is an Enquiry Judge instead of Disciplinary Authority and he has the power to issue a chargesheet for enquiry under the Rules 16 or 17 of the CCA Rules. Thus, the chargesheet has been rightly issued by the Honble Enquiry Judge as per the resolution of the Full Court dated 6.1.1995. (Para 9)

Honble MATHUR, J.–By way of this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, petitioner seeks to quash the memo dated 28.7.2001, whereby she has been informed that an enquiry is proposed to be held against her under Rule 16 of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1958, hereinafter referred-to as `the CCA Rules.

(2). Petitioner Smt. Sushila Nagar is officer in the cadre of Rajasthan Judicial Service. She was served with a memo of chargesheet dated 30.10.2000 alongwith the Statement of Allegation under the signatures of Honble the Enquiry Judge. The case against the petitioner as set out in the Statement of Allegations is that the learned Civil Judge (Junior Division) cum Judicial Magistrate, I Class, Pali, by order dated 23.05.1986 directed to release tractor bearing No. RSY 8389 to one Shri Mahaveer Chand. Another claimant of tractor filed a review application, which was rejected by order dt. 30.6.88. The revisional Court set aside the order of the learned Magistrate by order dated 30.04.1993 and directed to decide the application for disposal of the tractor after hearing all the concerned parties. This order was challenged before this Court by way of petition under Section 482 CrPC, which was rejected by order dated 25.7.96. Obviously, after rejection of application u/Sec. 482 CrPC, the learned Magistrate was required to dispose of the application for disposal of the tractor in accordance with the order of the revisional Court dt. 30.04.1993 i.e. to decide the application afresh after giving hearing to all the concerned parties. The petitioner was working as Civil Judge (Jr.Div.) cum Judicial Magistrate, I Class, at Pali. She disposed-of the said application by order dated 7.10.1996 and directed to release the tractor to Mahaveer Chand in the garb of the order of the High Court. It was noted by her that the High Court has considered Mahaveer Chand as the owner of the tractor on the basis of the documents. The order of the High Court dated 25.7.1995 and the order of the learned Magistrate i.e. the petitioner are extracted as follows:

``Instant 482 Petition has been filed against the revisional order passed by learned revisional court dt. 30.4.93.

A close scrutiny of the orders impugned passed by revisional court indicates that by the impugned orders the learned revisional court has remanded the matters to the learned Magistrate to decide it in accordance with law.

The orders of remand passed by the learned revisional court is eminently just and proper and it does not require interference under Sec. 482 CrPC.

Consequently, the instant Cr.Misc. petition is hereby dismissed.

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(3). The order of the learned Magistrate was clearly contrary to the orders of the High Court dt. 25.7.1995 and of the revisional Court dt. 30.4.93. Thus, the order of the learned Magistrate was set aside by the order of the High Court dt. 15.9.98. This led to the enquiry against the petitioner under Rule 17 of the CCA Rules. Honble the Chief Justice entrusted the enquiry against the petitioner to Honble Mr. Justice N.P. Gupta. Petitioner submitted a detailed reply to the memorandum of charges dt. 30.10.2000. On the main allegation, the case of the petitioner as set out in the reply is as follows:

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