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Prakash Arunkumar Trivedi vs Narmada Water Resource And Kalpsar ... on 13 September, 2023 cites

P.V. Mahadevan vs M.D. Tamil Nadu Housing Board on 8 August, 2005

(Para 4) 5.5 In P.V. Mahadevan v. MD, T.N. Housing Board [(2005) 6 SCC 636] the Supreme Court considered the aspect of delay of 10 years in initiating the departmental inquiry against the appellant, where no convincing explanation was given for such delay. The Supreme Court took view that allowing the respondent to proceed further with the departmental proceedings on such distance of time would be very prejudicial to the appellant. It was observed that the appellant already suffered enough on account of inordinate delay.
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Kiritbhai Shankar Patel vs State Of Gujarat on 27 December, 2018

5.5.1 Quashing the charge memo, it was held that protracted action against government employee would operate prejudicial to him and has to be avoided, "Under the circumstances, allowing the respondent to proceed further Page 5 of 7 Downloaded on : Mon Sep 18 20:36:26 IST 2023 NEUTRAL CITATION C/SCA/15393/2022 ORDER DATED: 13/09/2023 undefined with the departmental proceedings at this distance of time will be very prejudicial to the appellant. Keeping a higher government official under charges of corruption and disputed integrity would cause unbearable mental agony and distress to the officer concerned. The protracted disciplinary enquiry against a government employee should, therefore, be avoided not only in the interests of the government employee but in public interest and also in the interests of inspiring confidence in the minds of the government employees. At this stage, it is necessary to draw the curtain and to put an end to the enquiry. The appellant had already suffered enough and more on account of the disciplinary proceedings. As a matter of fact, the mental agony and sufferings of the appellant due to the protracted disciplinary proceedings would be much more than the punishment. For the mistakes committed by the department in the procedure for initiating the disciplinary proceedings, the appellant should not be made to suffer." (Para 12) 5.6 In Kiritbhai Shankar Patel v. State of Gujarat [2019 (2) GLR 1079] same question was examined by this Court. Inquiry was initiated against the petitioner after gap of 10 years from the incident. Petitioner was found to be not guilty by the inquiry officer. Disciplinary authority took seven years in expressing its disagreement with the findings of the inquiry officer.
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