Prabhodrai Dhirajram Nayak vs The District Panchayat, Surat And Ors. on 1 March, 1983
Coming
to the judgments cited by the learned counsel for the petitioner, in
(Shri) Prabodhrai
Dhirajram Nayak v. (The) District Panchayat, Surat and others
(supra),
the Court was dealing with the issue of removal of the Chairman of
the Nagar Panchayat. A preliminary inquiry was made in respect of
the allegations against the Chairman and on the basis of the said
inquiry, a notice was issued but the statements of persons recorded
at the inquiry were not supplied to the petitioner therein. A
learned Single Judge of this Court held that the order of removal
was illegal and deserved to be quashed. This is what the
Court has stated: