checking officials
started checking the tickets, they produced the tickets of those earlier
trips rather than the tickets that were given by the petitioner ... dated 24.09.1991 for the proven misconduct
like issuing the reused tickets, the punishment prescribed is deferment
of one increment with cumulative effect. The Disciplinary Authority
made any payment though they stated that they
were issued reused tickets by the petitioner. He submitted that since
it was not the case that ... noticed during checking that, 21
tickets were issued, however, 3 tickets were reused tickets. A
departmental inquiry was conducted in connection with the said
charge
Labour Court comes to a conclusion that the respondent conductor has reused the tickets which were already issued, coupled with the fact that some additional ... with in past. In the present case, the respondent conductor has reused the tickets which were already issued once. This fact has been accepted
only charge against the respondent was that he issued a
used ticket of denomination of Rs.5/-, to a passenger on the date
of check ... ignore it.
In the instant case, the passenger from whom a reused ticket
was recovered by name Waheed Ali was examined as a witness
natural justice; petitioner was
removed from service once in cash and ticket irregularities case
in June 1999 and was reinstated into service and this ... Learned counsel for petitioner submits that no passengers were
found with reused tickets; the purported statement of
passengers does not disclose it, however, attestation
instant case, the passenger from whom a
reused ticket was recovered by name Waheed Ali was
examined as a witness in the domestic enquiry
that
though the petitioner has issued tickets to all the
passengers and reflected the numbers of those tickets in
SR., the disciplinary authority during ... dated 24.09.1991 for any misconduct like
issuing the reused tickets, the punishment prescribed is
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deferment of one increment with cumulative effect
2008
ORAL
ORDER
1. From
the charge of reissuing the ticket, the disciplinary action was taken
against the respondent, after conducting the departmental inquiry
during ... inquiry. The Labour Court has, in the
above, recoded that reused tickets were found to have been issued to
the passenger and said aspect
were diverted to another bus, without
issuance of proper tickets, that the old tickets were reused and resold, resulting
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pleaded to consider the circumstances under which he issued the tickets at Ongole. He deposed in the enquiry that the two passengers, who boarded ... charge framed pertains to serious misconduct of the petitioner, who reused the tickets which were already issued for being used by earlier set of passengers