ROOP CHAND GUPTA Vs. DELHI VIDYUT BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Joining service on April 26, 1963 as an Inspector Grade II with the erstwhile Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking, the appellant earned promotions and when he was served with a charge memorandum which has resulted in a penalty being levied upon him, he was working as an Assistant Engineer. The undertaking had by then been taken over by the Delhi Vidyut Board.

(2.) By a memorandum dated September 18, 1993, the appellant was charged while working as an Assistant Engineer in District Najafgarh during 1991, with mala-fide intention and ulterior motive extending undue favour to the consumers by not completing the requisite commercial formalities while sanctioning tube well connections in village Mundka in utter disregard of the departmental instructions issued in this regard, thereby violating Rule 3(1) of the CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964.

(3.) The statement of imputation in support of the charge memorandum brings out the contours of the illegalities alleged to have been committed by the appellant. It reads as under:-