26. Following Kashinath Dikshita (supra) in State of U.P. Vs. Shatrughan Lal & Anr. (1998) 6 SCC 651, Court said that when charge sheet is issued and documents are proposed to be utilized against the employee concerned, if he is required to submit reply without furnishing documents relied by the Department it would amount to denial of effective opportunity of defence.
48. When a document is relied, unless its contents are verified or owned by its author and he is made available for cross-examination by delinquent employee, contents of such document cannot be treated to be true and proved so as to form an admissible evidence against delinquent employee in a disciplinary inquiry. I am fortified in taking this view by Apex Court's judgment in M/s Bareilly Electricity Supply Co. Ltd., Vs. The Workmen and others, AIR 1972 SC 330 where Court in para 14 of judgment has observed as under: