PARAMJIT KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition has been filed for issuance of writ of certiorari quashing the order dated 24.08.2000 (Annexure P-29) whereby the petitioner has been dismissed from service and the order dated 24.01.2001 (Annexure P-33) whereby the departmental appeal of the petitioner has been rejected.

(2.) BRIEF facts of the case are that the petitioner joined the Department of Cultural Affairs, Archives and Museums, Punjab as Librarian in the year 1983 and she was confirmed against that post on 08.04.1991. One Surinder Mohan had made a complaint in the department of the petitioner that she performed marriage with an already married man and by this she had violated Rule 21 of the Punjab Government Employees Conduct Rules, 1966 which is reproduced here as under:-

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner has argued that once the customary divorce was recognized by the Court of Civil Judge (Jr. Division), Ludhiana no question arises whether the divorce decree is valid or invalid. He has further argued that the petitioner had unnecessarily been harassed by her seniors and that when she objected, the present proceedings were initiated for forcing her to withdraw her complaints.