Managing Director Ecil Hyderabad Etc. ... vs B. Karunakar Etc. Etc on 1 October, 1993
28. The above case is also one of the instances wherein the Hon'ble
Supreme Court followed its landmark ruling in Managing Director, ECIL,
Hyderabad and others Vs. B.Karunakar and Others and held that the
opinion formed to punish a person without forwarding a copy of the inquriy
report and obtaining his comments on the report amounted to violation of
principles of natural justice. From the conjoined reading of the case laws,
the Courts have consistently ruled that there cannot be any slightest
departure from complying with the principles of natural justice, namely
furnishing of copy of the inquiry Report before the disciplinary authority
forms an opinion on the inquiry Report. Such mandate in the opinion of
this Court is the sublimest hallmark of fair play and good conscience in
action consistent with the constitutional imperatives.