DIWAN SINGH PURI Vs. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner before us, Diwan Singh Puri, was in the services of the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India on 05.02.1979 holding the post of Deputy General Manager, Surat Telecom District when he was served with a memorandum dated 22.11.1995 proposing to hold an inquiry against him. The memorandum enclosed the statement of imputations of misconduct or mis-behaviour qua which inquiry was proposed alongwith article of charges. The article of charges read as under:-

(2.) The statement of imputations of misconduct or mis-behaviour in support of article of charges annexed as Annexure-II to the memorandum reads as under:-

(3.) The article of charges were denied by the petitioner, and, thus, one Sh. Rakesh Kumar then working as G.M.T. Nadiad was appointed as the Inquiry Officer to inquire into the charges. On completion of inquiry with evidence being led by both the parties, an inquiry report dated 11.11.1998 was submitted. The inquiry report after analysis of the pleadings and evidence of both the parties gave a finding that the article of charges were partly proved against the petitioner. The conclusions are extracted hereunder:-