Sane Venkata Veera Raghava Reddy, v. State Bank of India
Case brief
What is this about?
Concurrent departmental enquiry and criminal prosecution; same set of allegations; State Bank of India disciplinary action against employee; initiation of enquiry Ref.1A/ASRK/2020-21/34 dated 11.11.2020; CC.No.595/2019 JMFC Anantapuramu Sections 409 and 420 IPC; stay of departmental proceedings till completion of trial; Section 151 CPC interim stay IA No.1 of 2021; removal from service with pension, provident fund and gratuity dated 30.11.2021; appeal to Appellate authority dismissed; writ dismissed as infructuous; no order as to costs; miscellaneous applications closed; Article 226 mandamus; High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati; Justice Kiranmayee Mandava; decided 24.09.2025.
What did the court decide?
Having regard to the fact that punishment of removal from services had already been imposed vide proceedings dated 30.11.2021 (after granting superannuation benefits, i.e., pension, provident fund and gratuity) and that the petitioner's appeal before the Appellate authority stood dismissed, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous; there shall be no order as to costs. The court did not adjudicate the legality of conducting the departmental enquiry concurrently with the criminal trial.