State Of Haryana And Anr. vs Rattan Singh on 22 March, 1977
"The alleged violation of natural justice pre-supposes that it was necessary that the passenger witness should have been made available for cross examination. This assumption is baseless. Firstly, the notice by registered post sent to the witness was received back with the remark that the witness had left the address and the notice could not, therefore, be served on that address. This made it impossible for the Inquiry Officer to serve the passenger witness. Secondly, the question whether the hear-say evidence of the checking staff about the statement of the passenger should have been admitted in evidence by the Inquiry Officer because of the impossibility of enforcing his attendance which may arise in a suitable case did not arise in this case. Even when no such impossibility of enforcing the attendance of the passenger was proved the Supreme Court observed in State of Haryana and another v. Rattan Singh ......"