Bengaluru Electricity v. H.M. Kotresh
Case brief
What is this about?
NC: 2025:KHC:4781-DB | High Court of Karnataka, Bengaluru | WA No. 84/2021 (S-RES) c/w WA No. 680/2020 (S-RES) and WA No. 177/2021 (S-DIS) | decided 03.02.2025 | Bench: Anu Sivaraman & Vijaykumar A. Patil | BESCOM writ appeals against Single Judge order dated 31.08.2020 quashing termination of GVPs/MFFs (Grama Vidyuth Prathinidhi) dismissed; reliance on para 26 of judgment dated 24.01.2025 in WA No.34/2021 and connected cases (contract of service; termination on malfeasance/misfeasance only after due notice); disciplinary enquiry within 8 weeks; reinstatement without consequential benefits if found not guilty; implementation within 4 weeks.
What did the court decide?
Writ Appeals WA Nos. 84/2021, 680/2020 and 177/2021 dismissed; respondents held entitled to the same relief as under the judgment dated 24.01.2025 in WA No.34/2021; the learned Single Judge's directions (quashing of termination orders, liberty to hold disciplinary enquiry within 8 weeks, and reinstatement without consequential benefits if the employees are found not guilty) to be given effect to at the earliest, appropriate steps within four weeks.