Delhi High Court stresses consistency in disciplinary actions for co-delinquents in employment misconduct; Upholds conversion of Bank Manager’s dismissal to compulsory retirement
Looking at the punishments awarded to the co-delinquents for same incidents/transactions and acts of connivance and testing the impugned action on the anvil of Article 14 as well as keeping in mind the long and unblemished spell of service of the respondent, save and except, the Single Judge was inclined to convert the punishment from ‘dismissal’ to one of ‘compulsory retirement’.
