Court : Central Administrative Tribunal CAT Chandigarh
Reported in : (2007)(2)SLJ322CAT
1. Applicant Shri H.R. Megh is an IAS officer of 1990 batch allocated to the State of Punjab. He is aggrieved by the Memorandum of Chargesheet dated 26.6.2006, whereby inquiry under Rule 8 of the All India Services (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, was ordered against him.The charge imputed against him was that when posted as Director, Consolidation, Punjab, Jalandhar in the year 1997, he accepted the petition of Sarpanch of Village Sahni, Tehsil Phagwara, Distt.Kapurthala under Section 42 of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1942 and allowed exchange of 7 acres of Gram Panchayat land with 4 acres of private land, putting the Panchayat to a great loss. It has been alleged in the Charge Memo that petition under Section 42 can be filed only for removal and rectification of patent mistake in the consolidation proceedings done at the time of consolidation, while there was no such mistake. Exchange of Gram Panchayat land with private land could be...
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Sanjeev Kaushik, Member (J) 1. Both the sides are in agreement that the facts of the case and points of law involved in these Original Applications are common and as such these have been taken up for disposal by a common order. For the facility of convenience, facts have been taken from O.A.No. 296-PB-2012 (Mrs. Amrita Vs. Union of India and Others). 2. A charge-sheet dated 3.12.2008 under rule 16 of the CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965, came to be issued to the applicant, with allegations that while working as Postal Assistant, SBSO, Jalandhar City HO, during 2001 to 12.5.2007, she had failed to get verified the heavy withdrawals of Padhiana Single Handed SO, through SDI. She also failed to compare balance written in SB-7 with the balance available in SBSO record and also did not compare the signature of depositor on withdrawal form with SB-3 held in SBSO, which facilitated Sh. Chander Parkash Khurana, the then SPM Padhiana, SO making fraudulent withdrawals from various SB accounts on different ...
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Reported in : (2003)(3)SLJ162CAT
1. This Tribunal is faced with a vexing crucial question with regard to its jurisdiction, power and authority in relation to the service matters of various categories of Central Government Employees who have been transferred on deemed deputation with effect from 1st October, 2000 to a newly incorporated Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (for short 'BSNL').2. A narrative of facts giving rise to the above controversy is that Shri Phuleshwar Prasad Singh (applicant in the two O.As), who admittedly is holding the post of Senior Accounts Officer, having been promoted in the year 1997 in the cadre of Indian Post and Telegraph Accounts and Finance Service Group 'B', is a Member of All India Service. He was posted in the office of Divisional Engineer (Telephone) Darbhanga, Bihar, and was under the administrative control of Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communications, Government of India.By orders dated 16.3.2001 (i.e. after his deemed deputation in BSNL) he was placed under suspensio...
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Mrs. Rajwant Sandhu, Member (A) 1. This Original Application has been filed under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, seeking the following relief:- œ8 (i). That impugned order dated 14.03.2012 (Annexure A-1), order dated 30.04.2012 (Annexure A-2) and order dated 11.04.2012 (Annexure A-3) be quashed and set aside and applicant be ordered to be reinstated in service.? 2. Averment has been made in the Original Application that the applicant joined Chandigarh Police Department on 19.05.1988 as Constable and worked as such upto 14.03.2012. The family of the applicant includes his wife and two daughters and a son who are studying in B.Tech, 10+1 and 10th respectively. The applicant has been allotted House No.66/T, Sector 20-A, Chandigarh from Police Pool Houses. FIR No.62 dated 12.03.2012 under Sections 307, 506 and 120-B of Indian Penal Code was registered on the statement of one Inspector Satpal, of PCR Van alleging that on 12.03.2012 Constable Baleer Singh of PCR ...
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MRS. PROMILLA ISSAR, MEMBER (A) 1. The applicant has filed this OA praying for the following relief:- “The impugned orders dated 7.10.2008 (A-16) as also the order dated 6.3.2009 (A-18), imposing the penalty of dismissal from service and dismissing the appeal preferred by the applicant, may kindly be set aside.” 2. The facts of the case as projected by the applicant are that while working as Junior Assistant in the office of Respondent no. 3, he was directed to join the office of Secretary Transport Authority (for short STA), U.T. Chandigarh and was relieved vide order dated 26.7.2005. After joining the office of STA, he was assigned the duties of Care Taker/scanning documents of private service vehicles. He was involved in a trap case and an FIR no. 6, dated 19.6.2007 u/s 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 was registered against him. He was convicted/sentenced by the Trial Court vide judgment dated 11.8.2008. Against this judgm...
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Reported in : (2004)(1)SLJ333CAT
1. The applicant Shri S.L. Kukreja has since retired from the post of Executive Engineer, MES on 31st of May, 2000. While he was in service, proceedings for major penalty were instituted against him under Rule 14 of the Central Civil Services (Control, Classification & Appeal) Rules, 1965 (for short 'CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965'), pursuant to the Ministry of Defence Memorandum dated 21st October, 1993, a copy of which is Annexure A-2. The substance of the charge against the applicant is that while he was posted as Assistant Engineer, AGE (B&R) at GE (P), Maharajpur, during the period August, 1983 to April, 1987, he failed to effectively supervise the work of provision of false ceiling and the lapse on his part is attributable to a collapse of Hanger P-3 at Air Force Station, Maharajpur on 23rd May, 1989.2. In all 5 Officers including the applicant were served with the charge memos dated 21.10.1993. Shri Bimal Datta, SE (SG) was appointed as Inquiry Officer. The report of enquiry dat...
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Reported in : (2004)(1)SLJ54CAT
1. The core question involved in the present Original Application for consideration and determination is whether the Union Public Service Commission (for short UPSC) is obliged to convene a Review Departmental Promotion Committee (for short DPC) on the request of the Government of India which has found some merits in the representation made by an Officer who could not reach the bench mark and, therefore, found ineligible for consideration to a promotional post by the earlier DPC.This controversy has come to be raised in the back-drop of the following facts.2. As a result of Combined Civil Service Examinations of the year 1980, the applicant Shri Satyendra Jeet Singh was selected and appointed as Assistant Collector in the Customs and Central Excise Group 'A' Service, and was given the label of 1981 batch. The conditions of service of the applicant are governed by the Central Excise Service Group 'A' Rules. 1987. On account of various long drawn rounds of litigation right upto the Apex...
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(Oral). Sanjeev Kaushik, Member (J). 1. By means of the present Original Application filed under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicant has impugned the order dated 22.11.2011 passed by respondent no. 3, vide which a sum of Rs. 16,200/- on account of Children Education Allowance and excess T.A payment of Rs. 500 reflected in the last pay certificate, has been recovered on the basis of an audit objection. 2. Facts are to be noticed first. The applicant herein initially joined Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti at Regional office, Chandigarh, in the office of Respondent no. 2 as a Stenographer w.e.f. 01.05.1989 on deputation basis and was subsequently absorbed permanently w.e.f 01.05.1991. The applicant was assigned an additional duty of the post of Assistant and worked in various sections including Establishment, Administration etc. In addition, the applicant was appointed as Presenting Officer in various cases. Considering his service record, he was promoted as Pers...
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