ANAND PRAKASH BORA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE present case pertains to 50 years back in history. The petitioner at the relevant point of time was working as Lower Division Clerk (LDC) in the Department of Commercial Taxes (ACTO, RPGT, Ward -'C', Jodhpur. He along -with other clerical staff, ten in number, of the said Department were jointly charge sheeted for disciplinary action on account of certain missing files of the assessment record of the tax assessees in the said Department.

(2.) A joint enquiry was held against the various staff members including the petitioner and the Enquiry Officer found all of them guilty of negligence in maintaining the record properly and all the 10 staff members were punished with the penalty like stoppage of one grade increment with cumulative effect.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Bora, further urged that the impugned order (Annex. P/9) dated 24.08.1996 is a non -speaking order and without assigning any reason, the representation of the petitioner has been rejected by the concerned authority without even discussing the details about the facts of those staff members.