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AJIT KUMAR
Baleshwar Prasad Sangal – Appellant
Versus
Chairman S. B. I. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Ajit Kumar, J.
Late petitioner Baleshwar Prasad Sangal, an Ex-Officer of the Bank in MMGS-II, had filed this petition challenging the order passed by the Disciplinary Authority dismissing him from employment of the Bank and so also the order rejecting his appeal and review petition by the authorities of the Bank. During pendency of this petition, the petitioner died on 25.12.2003 and consequently his heirs, namely, Smt. Nisha Sangal, Anubhav Gupta and Ms. Ankita Gupta came to be substituted.
2. The original petitioner late Baleshwar Prasad Sangal was subjected to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to two set of charge-sheets dated 15.1.1996 and 18.6.1996. The first charge-sheet contained as many as seven charges and the charges were basically for the delinquent employee having failed to discharge his duties with honesty, integrity and devotion and his act and conduct was taken to be unbecoming of an official of a Bank. Besides the charges of granting credit limit of term loan without due verification, there were charges of over withdrawals, over drafting and enhancing over draft limit by exercising illegally his discretionary power. The second charge-sheet contained charges
Disciplinary proceedings were upheld as valid; delay and procedural flaws were insufficient to overturn dismissal for misconduct.
The standard of proof in disciplinary proceedings is based on preponderance of probabilities, and courts will not interfere unless the punishment is shockingly disproportionate to the misconduct.
Grant of reinstatement - Court will not ordinarily interfere in the punishment imposed in the disciplinary proceedings to substitute its own conclusion on penalty except where the punishment imposed ....
The main legal point established is the scope of judicial review in departmental enquiry proceedings, emphasizing the principles of natural justice, the authority of the disciplinary officers, and th....
The court confirmed that disciplinary authorities possess broad discretion in imposing penalties, which cannot be interfered with unless shown to be arbitrary, perverse, or in breach of natural justi....
The court reaffirmed that disciplinary proceedings must strictly adhere to procedural requirements, including proper approval of chargesheets and the necessity of oral enquiries, to ensure fairness a....
Judicial review of disciplinary actions is limited; courts cannot reappraise evidence or substitute their judgment unless findings are arbitrary or unsupported by evidence.
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