HARDEO RAM Vs. STATE OF BIHAR (NOW JHARKHAND)

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the parties

(2.) PETITIONER has prayed for quashing the order contained in Memo No. 231 dated 18.3.1997 (Annexure -5), issued under the signature of respondent no. 3, by which certain punishments have been awarded.

(3.) MR . Samir Saurav, learned counsel for the petitioner, raised short submission relying on a judgment Shri Mahavir Prasad vs. State of Bihar, reported in 1988 PLJR 82, in -which it was held that the employee ought to have been given an opportunity to show cause why clauses (3) and (5) of Rule 97 of Bihar Service Code should not be applied in his case.