STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. LALA RAM

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the appellants.

(2.) APPELLANTS are aggrieved with the judgment of learned Single Judge allowing the writ petition filed by the responded a patrolling Officer under the Excise Preventive Force of the Excise Department. A chargesheet the target of registering the minimum number of cases while he was serving at Bali in the period immediate after he was posted there inter alia on the ground that the incumbent in registering less than the targeted number of cases under the provisions of Excise Act, has shown negligence in discharge of his duties. The respondent had furnished his explanation that since he has been appointed shortly before the period in question and he took some time to understand the working of the provisions of the Excise Act in the area under his control and the nature of breaches that are likely to occur in the area under his control. He also brought to the notice that he has no been made available with the requisite amount of facilities including timely availability of the transport which has caused short-fall in registration of the cases under the Excise Act. However, not satisfied with the explanation, the respondent was visited penalty of stoppage of two grade increment without cumulative effect by order dt. 6. 11. 96.

(3.) AGGRIEVED with that order, the respondent-petitioner moved the Governor for review which too was rejected by order dt. 28. 10. 2000.