Jai Kumar Bajpai (Dead) Thr. Lrs. Smt. ... vs Chairman-Cum-Managing Director on 27 April, 2022
22. Shri D.K. Dixit, learned counsel for the
petitioner has also placed reliance upon an order passed by
the Supreme Court reported in AIR 2022 SC 667- Brijesh
Chandra Dwivedi (Dead) thr. Lrs. Vs. Sanya Sahayak
13 Writ Petition No.14344/2009
and Others wherein the Supreme Court after considering
the fact that in the departmental proceeding, the
punishment of dismissal inflicted against an employee
who has completed 25 years of long service as a driver
and met with a minor accident with a jeep, that too under
the influence of liquor has finally observed that the
punishment was too harsh and could be converted into
compulsory retirement of the employee. The counsel for
the petitioner has submitted that in the present case also,
the petitioner was at the verge of retirement and the
punishment of dismissal inflicted upon him is too harsh.