32. The Apex Court in re : Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan vs. Mehbub Alam Laskar reported in (2008) 2 Supreme Court Cases 479 has observed that there exists a distinction between motive and foundation. If misconduct is foundation of such order, the same would be bad in law even if appears to be innocuous one. The Apex Court has further observed that only in the event of unsatisfactory performance by the employee the termination of probation would have been held to be justified. However, when the foundation for such an order is not unsatisfactory performance on the part of the employee but overt acts amount to misconduct, an opportunity of hearing to the employee concerned is imperative. In other words if the employee is found to have committed misconduct although an order terminating probation would appear to be innocuous on its face, the same would be vitiated if in effect and substance it is found to be stigmatic in nature.
28. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and having perused the material available on record, at the very outset, I am going through the dictum of Apex Court in re: Pavanendra Narayan Verma (supra) being referred by Sri S.B. Pandey, learned Senior Advocate.