Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank vs Shri.R.H. Kavital on 21 August, 2023
8. Though Sri. Pradeep Sawkar has
made a valiant attempt to contend that DE has
admitted his guilt and as such, there is nothing
which requires to be proceeded by relying upon
the judgment of the Apex Court in the case of
CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA v. KARUNAMOY
BANERJEE reported in AIR 1968 SC 266, for
which proposition there cannot be any quarrel,
same cannot be extended to facts on hand for
reasons more than one. In the instant case DE
has raised a specific plea in his evidence
tendered before labour court viz., in
examination-in-chief vide paragraph 6 to the
effect that he does not know even to write in
Kannada language properly and he does not
know how to read and write English. Said issue
will have to be thrashed out on evidence being
tendered by the management. That apart, DE has
specifically contended in paragraph 10 of his
affidavit filed in lieu of his examination-in-chief
before the labour court that on 31.10.2016 he
was informed by the Branch Manager about
enquiry being conducted at Mangaluru and he
had obtained his signatures on the papers typed
in English and thereafter informed him to state
before the enquiry officer admitting his
signatures and this would result in saving his
job and as such he had affixed his signature.
The veracity of said statement will have to be