HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 21828 OF 2017

ORDER:

The challenge mounted in this Writ Petition is to the notice dated 25.5.2017 issued by the 2^nd respondent purportedly informing about conduct of de novo enquiry against petitioner and appointment of Inquiry Officer.

2. The brief facts of the case are:-

Petitioner was appointed as a Packer-cum-Helper in

1981; thereafter, he was promoted as Sales Assistant and Junior Manager in 2009. It is stated, during physical verification held on 31.03.2010, a deficit in stocks to the tune of Rs.6,41,653.20 ps. was noticed in APCO SE, Sanga Reddy and petitioner, the then Junior Manager, who was only available employee in the unit was made responsible for the said deficit. Charges were framed against by the Divisional Marketing Officer, Secunderabad dated 08.11.2020. They are:

Charge No.1: That, he has created physical stock deficit of Rs.6,41,653.20 ps as on 31.3.2010 in Sanga Reddy SE, and caused loss to the APCO Society which is gross misconduct governing Rule No.43 XI of the Special Bye-laws of APCO employees.

Charge No.2: He has failed to maintain stock ledges up-to date manually or the computerization of stock position as