Chetan Swaroop Sharma v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Sugar Industry and Cane Deptt. Lko and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Neutral Citation 2025:AHC-LKO:4230. Post-retirement departmental inquiry; punishment order passed after superannuation; charge sheet dated 17.04.2020 shortly before retirement on 30.04.2020; Disciplinary Authority punishment order 17.07.2023; appeal rejection 19.03.2024 (printed 19.07.2024 in operative paragraph); U.P. Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation Limited employees; reliance on Dev Prakash Tewari (2014) 7 SCC 260 and Bhagirathi Jena (1999) 3 SCC 666; respondents' counsel conceded the proposition; writ petition allowed and both orders quashed; respondents free to proceed afresh in accordance with law; WRIT - A No. 8914 of 2024; High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench; Abdul Moin, J.; decision date 22.01.2025; petitioner Chetan Swaroop Sharma.
What did the court decide?
Quashing of the punishment order dated 17.07.2023 and of the order rejecting the petitioner's appeal (both Annexures 1 and 2 to the writ petition), with consequences to follow; liberty reserved to the respondents to proceed against the petitioner in accordance with law.