Sanjay Kumar Choudhary vs The Union Of India & Ors on 7 December, 2015
13. Reliance placed by Mr. Bhardwaj on the aforesaid decisions, in our
view, are of no avail looking to the circumstances of the case. Even in
Promod Kumar IPS (supra), the Supreme Court, while referring to Ajay
Kumar Choudhary (supra), wherein the Supreme Court had frowned upon
the practice of protracted suspension and held that suspension must
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necessarily be for a short duration, eventually held that the suspension of the
respondent in that case would not serve any useful purpose, on the basis of
the material on record of that case. The same cannot be said in the facts of
the present case considering the fact that the investigation under the
Prevention of Corruption Act, and the IPC is underway by the CBI, and by
the Appropriate Authority under the PMLA.