State Of U.P vs Shatrughan Lal & Anr on 30 July, 1998
16. We cannot ordinarily go into findings of the fact in the departmental proceeding but in this case, we find that the rules of natural justice have been violated. It has been held in State of U. P. v. Shatrughan Lal, 1998 (6) SCC 651, that non-supply of relevant documents which were relied on In the charge-sheet vitiates the enquiry. In the present case, it has been alleged in paragraphs 22. 26, 29, 33 and 34 that the petitioner was not supplied relevant documents relating to the charge-sheet. In reply to these paragraphs, it is stated in para 25 of the counter-affidavit that all the documents required by the petitioner were made available to him. In our opinion, many of the relevant documents were not supplied to the petitioner e.g., those mentioned in, paras 4 and 5 of Annexure-26A to the writ petition, Also, out of the 22 documents mentioned In the charge-sheet only 17 were supplied, as mentioned in para 33 of the writ petition and Annexure-29. In our opinion, this itself vitiates the enquiry.