Corporation Of The City Of Nagpur Civil ... vs Ramchandra S/O Gurunath Modak & Ors on 26 February, 1981
20. At the outset, it needs to be mentioned that the High Court in such cases of departmental enquiries and the findings recorded therein does not exercise the powers of appellate court/authority. The jurisdiction of the High Court in such cases is very limited for instance where it is found that the domestic enquiry is vitiated because of non-observance of principles of natural justice, denial of reasonable opportunity; findings are based on no evidence, and/or the punishment is totally disproportionate to the proved misconduct of an employee. There is a catena of judgments of this Court which had settled the law on this topic and it is not necessary to refer to all these decisions. Swfice it to refer to a few decisions of this Court on this topic viz. State of A.P. v. S. Sree Rama Rao , State of A.P. v. Chitra Venkata Rao , Corporation Of the City of Nagpur v. Ramchandra and Nelson Motis v. Union of India .