SUMNESH VYAS Vs. UCO BANK AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition for writ is directed against the order dt. 20.02.2004 passed by the General Manager (Operation -I), UCO Bank, Kolkata, rejecting an appeal preferred by the petitioner giving challenge to the order dt. 20.03.2001 passed by the disciplinary authority i.e. the Regional Manager, UCO Bank, Jodhpur in respect of charge sheet dt. 01.08.2000. By the order dt. 20.03.2001 the disciplinary authority while holding the petitioner guilty for charge No. 1 imposed a penalty of censure. Briefly stated, facts of the case are that the petitioner while of as clerk at Jodhpur Main Branch of UCO bank committed certain acts of omission and commission for which a charge sheet dt. 01.08.2000 was issued to him. The allegations against him include inter -alia the following: -

(2.) ON 27.08.1998, while working in the cash department he prepared a fake clearing voucher for credit entry in Savings Bank account No. 18784 of Mrs. Sumitra Jain for Rs. 2.00 lacs. To make corresponding debit against the fake credit entry he had altered the date from 24.08.1998 to 27.08.1998 on account of draft bearing No. 47/093120 dt. 17.08.1998 issued by our Aalamganj branch for Rs. 2.00 lacs, which was earlier paid on 24.08.1998 to Andhra Bank through clearing.

(3.) ON 17.09.1998, he had also given introduction to account holder Smt. Sarda Devi and Hazara Singh Rajpurohit without carefully verifying the whereabouts of the a/c holder personally and managed to open their SB A/c 20091/63 in the branch to get their confidence for his ulterior motive.