PRAYAGRAJ (Uttar Pradesh), Mar. 16, 2024 (TBINN)
A division bench of Allahabad High Court has set aside the suspension of a lecturer on the charge that he contracted a second marriage during the subsistence of first marriage.
A bench comprising justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi, while upholding a single judge order, noted that once the jurisdiction was invoked to award “minor” punishment, it was impermissible to place the employee under suspension and the requirements of enquiry and opportunity of hearing were not met.
A minor punishment could have been imposed upon the employee only if the employer was satisfied with the existence of charges levelled against the employee concerned, it observed.
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