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Appreciation of evidence in a domestic enquiry. Strict law of evidence is not applicable in a domestic enquiry, but some legal evidence is necessary to establish the charge. There are, however, certain basic principles of evidence which no Tribunal can ignore and one of them is the evidence of doubtful nature, e.g. unsigned statement of a person who has not been produced before the Tribunal recorded at the back of an accused person by an Investigating Officer whois also the prosecutor, should not be accepted. The findings of the Tribunal being based on such inadmissible evidence cannot be sustained.