UNION OF INDIA Vs. BISHWAMBHAR NATH MISHRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned Counsel for the petitioners and Sri A. K. Dave, who has appeared for the respondents.

(2.) THE petitioners have challenged the impugned order dated 9-11-2000, Annexure-4 to the writ petition. It appears that Respondent No. 1 was in railway service and was charge-sheeted for his absence without leave for certain periods. After enquiry, he was removed from service. THE Tribunal substituted the punishment of removal from service by punishment of compulsory retirement. Evidently the Tribunal took this humanitarian approach because the respondent No. 1 has retired from service and by substituting the punishment of removal from service by the punishment of compulsory retirement, it enabled him to get pensionary benefits in his old age. We, therefore, see no reason to interfere with this humanitarian approach of the Tribunal.