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23. An identical questions came to be decided by the Hon'ble Apex Court in
the Ratnesh Kumar Choudhary Vs. Indira Gandhi Institute of
Medical Sciences, Patna, connected OA Bihar and Others JT 2015 (9)
363, wherein having considered the ration of law laid down in previous
judgments of Hon'ble Supreme Court in cases Samsher Singh v. State
of Punjab (1974) 2 SCC 831, Radhey Shyam Gupta vs. U.P. State
Agro Industries Corporation Ltd. and Another (1999) 2 SCC 21,
State of U.P. vs. Kaushal Kishore Shukla (1991) 1 SCC 691,
Triveni Shankar Saxena vs. State of U.P.(1992) Supp (1) SCC 524,
State of U.P. vs. Prem Lata Misra (1994) 4 SCC 189, Samsher Singh
(supra), Parshotam Lal Dhingra vs. Union of India AIR 1958 SC
36, State of Bihar vs. Gopi Kishore Prasad AIR 1960 SC 689, State
of Orissa vs. Ram Narayan Das AIR 1961 SC 177, Gujarat Steel
Tubes Ltd. vs. Gujarat Steel Tubes Mazdoor Sabha (1980) 2 SCC
593, Gujarat Steel Tubes Ltd. vs. Gujarat Steel Tubes Mazdoor
Sabha (1980) 2 SCC 593, Anoop Jaiswal vs. Govt. of India (1984) 2
SCC 369, Nepal Singh vs. State of U.P. (1980) 3 SCC 288, Commissioner,
Food & Civil Supplies vs. Prakash Chandra Saxena (1994) 5 SCC 177,
Commissioner, Food & Civil Supplies vs. Prakash Chandra Saxena (1994) 5
SCC 177, Chandra Prakash Shahi vs. State of U.P. and Others (2000) 5 SCC
152, Union of India and Others vs. Mahaveer C. Singhvi (2010) 8 SCC 220,
Dipti Prakash Banerjee vs. Satyendra Nath Bose National connected OA
Centre for Basic Sciences (1999) 3 SCC 60, Pavanendra Narayan Verma
vs. Sanjay Gandhi P.G.I. of Medical Sciences and Another (2002) 1 SCC
520] and State Bank of India and Others vs. Palak Modi and Another
(2013) 3 SCC 607, it was ruled by the Apex Court that if the termination
order is stigmatic and based or founded upon misconduct, would be a
punitive order and court can lift the veil and declare that in the garb of
termination simplicitor, the employer has punished an employee, for an
act of misconduct. It was also held that if a probationer is discharged on
the ground of misconduct or inefficiency or for similar reason, without a
proper enquiry and without his getting a reasonable opportunity of
showing cause against the termination, it may amount to removal from
service within the meaning of Article 311 (2). Hence, a show cause notice
was required to be issued and opportunity of being heard has to be
provided to such employees in departmental enquiry before passing any
adverse order. In the absence of which, the termination order would be
inoperative and non-est in the eyes of law.