The Registrar and Anr. v. Jaganath Majjage S/O Shankarappa Majjage
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: infructuous writ petition; Karnataka Lokayukta; Registrar; Addl. Registrar (Enquiries-6); Karnataka Administrative Tribunal Kalaburagi; Application No.20953/2021; writ of certiorari; Article 226 Constitution of India; departmental enquiry; punishment order dated 27.09.2022; dismissal without deciding merits. Core point: petition dismissed as infructuous because the challenged Tribunal order's subject matter (notice to respondent) was overtaken by a subsequent departmental enquiry and punishment order; no ruling on the correctness of the KAT order.
What did the court decide?
On the petitioners' counsel's submission that the Department has since conducted the Departmental Enquiry against the respondent and passed a punishment order on 27.09.2022, the writ petition challenging the Tribunal's order does not survive and is dismissed as having become infructuous; the merits of the Tribunal's order were not adjudicated.