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CASE NO.:

Appeal (civil) 4773 of 2006

PETITIONER:

The Shahabad Cooperative Sugar Mills Ltd

RESPONDENT:

Special Secretary to Govt. of Haryana Corp. & Ors

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 10/11/2006

BENCH:

S.B. Sinha & Dalveer Bhandari

JUDGMENT:

J U D G M E N T

(Arising out of SLP (C) No.24613 of 2005)

S.B. Sinha, J.

Leave granted.

Interpretation of Section 115 of the Haryana Co-operative Societies

Act, 1984 (for short, ’the Haryana Act’) calls for consideration in this appeal

which arises out of a judgment and order dated 12.9.2005 passed by the

Punjab & Haryana High Court in Civil Writ Petition No.19569 of 2003.

Appellant is a cooperative society registered under the Co-operative

Societies Act. Respondent was appointed as Chief Accounts Officer in the

Appellant mill. On the ground that he has committed misconduct, two

charge-sheets were issued to him containing the following charges :

"(a) He failed to check and control the Mill accounts,

which resulted into issuance of false receipts of

cheques/cash/demand drafts thus putting the Mill

into financial losses.

(b) Failing to control the Mills Fun