produce its records. He submitted that the management
suppressed the Nominal Muster Rolls (NMRs) which indicated
that the appellant had worked for the entire period ... that neither the
management nor the workman cared to produce the muster roll
w.e.f. August, 1994; that the employee did not summon muster
Municipal Corporation Of Delhi vs Female Workers (Muster Roll) And Amr on 8 March, 2000
Equivalent citations: AIR 2000 SUPREME COURT ... PETITIONER:
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI
RESPONDENT:
FEMALE WORKERS (MUSTER ROLL) AND AMR.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 08/03/2000
BENCH:
S. SAGHlR AHMAD
Court, an application was made by the
respondents to produce the Muster Rolls for the period 1987 to
1992. That apart no other material ... Engineers-In-Charge of the Project and
produced the Muster Rolls for the period between 1986 to 1990 but
did not produce the Muster Rolls
Whether the persons employed on daily wage basis or nominal muster roll or
consolidated pay or as contingent worker on full time basis in different ... employing the persons of their choice on daily wages or
nominal muster roll or contract or part time basis with the hope that on some
Criminal Trial-Public servant charged with the offence
of preparing false muster rolls, inflating wages and other
bills-Burden of proof on whom lies.
Indian ... receipt.
In course of time the Directorate of Accounts asked for
muster rolls of labourers employed in the work. A-1 prepared
a register
Improvement, Mohangarh Tank Project, was misappropriating Government money by preparing false muster rolls. The accused used to send instructions to the Mistry ... regarding the manner in which the false muster rolls were to be prepared. Two such letters came into the hands
report for duty thereafter. Consequently he was marked
absent in the muster roll and being a casual employee his name was
deleted from the muster ... with the relevant rules his name was struck off
from the muster roll.
The dispute was ultimately referred to the Central Government
Industrial Tribunal
loss to the Corporation of
Madras by preparation of fully bogus muster-rolls and
partially bogus muster-rolls in pursuance of the said
conspiracy ... muster-rolls passed for payment, obtained money
from the treasury, misappropriated such amounts and did
several acts of omission and commission in order to achieve
were informed, that their names would be struck
off from the muster roll. Notwithstanding those notices and
the willingness of management to take them back ... were informed by letters that their names were removed from
the muster roll. No domestic inquiry however, was held into
the misconduct of the respondents
First Information Report No. 5/84 was lodged.
Investigation revealed that muster roll no. 146 (Ext. PW-1/A)
for the period 1st of July ... them present
for the month of July, 1984. In the said muster roll, the names
of Kanshi Ram and Ram Bahadur were recorded
