NON-REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 11975 OF 2016

(ARISING OUT OF SLP (C) NO.30710 OF 2014)

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER,

KRISHNA DISTRICT COOPERATIVE

CENTRAL BANK LTD. AND ANOTHER

.....APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS

K. HANUMANTHA RAO AND ANOTHER

.....RESPONDENT(S)

J U D G M E N T

A.K. SIKRI, J.

Leave granted.

2.

A departmental inquiry was conducted against respondent No.1

herein, an employee of appellant, viz. Krishna District

Cooperative Central Bank Ltd., into certain charges of

misconduct. In the said inquiry, charges were proved and as a

result the disciplinary authority inflicted the punishment of

dismissal from service upon respondent No.1. The High Court

vide impugned judgment has altered the said penalty of dismissal

Civil Appeal No. 11975 of 2016

Page 1 of 14

(arising out of SLP (Civil) No.30710 of 2014)

Digitally signed by

NIDHI AHUJA

Date: 2016.12.10

11:22:38 IST

Reason:

Signature Not Verified

to that of stoppage of two increments for a period of three years.

Whether it was permissible for the High Court to do so in

the facts of the present case, is the question that needs to be

determined in the instan