Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
---|---|
e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Labour Law |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Labour Law:Workman - Bus Conductor - Inquiry against for not giving tickets to passengers though charging from them - Removal from service - Labour Court holding the punishment to be harsh and substituting the same by stoppage of one increment without cumulative effect and directing reinstatement with full back wages - High Court reducing the back wages to 50% - Held: Since workman did not challenge correctness and legality of inquiry conducted, it was not open to Labour Court to go into findings of Inquiry Officer regarding misconduct committed by delinquent - Removal/dismissal from service is appropriate punishment for an employee found guilty of misappropriation of funds - Courts should be reluctant to reduce punishment on misplaced sympathy for such an employee.The respondent-workman, a bus conductor, was removed from service after an inquiry into the charge, inter alia, that he had collected the fare from 8 passengers in his bus, but did not give them the tickets. On an industrial dispute being raised, the matter was referred to the Labour Court. The workman did not press the legality and fairness of the inquiry proceedings and confined his case only to the conclusions reached by the Inquiry Officer and the quantum of punishment. The Labour Court, however, held that the punishment of removal imposed upon the workman was excessive in comparison to the charges levelled against him. It substituted the punishment of removal by stoppage of one increment without any cumulative effect and directed his reinstatement with full back wages. In the writ petition filed by the workman, the High Court uphold the order passed by the Labour Court, but reduced the back wages to 50%, Aggrieved, the Department filed the instant appeal. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhan |
Neutral Citation | 2007 INSC 1234 |
Petitioner | State Road Transport Corporation |
Respondent | Vinod Kumar |
SCR | [2007] 12 S.C.R. 1018 |
Judgement Date | 2007-12-06 |
Case Number | 5660 |
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. It is sponsored and mentored by Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI provides user group-specific services such as Examination Preparatory for School and College students and job aspirants. Services for Researchers and general learners are also provided. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is designed to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. It is developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
Learn more about this project from here.
NDLI is a conglomeration of freely available or institutionally contributed or donated or publisher managed contents. Almost all these contents are hosted and accessed from respective sources. The responsibility for authenticity, relevance, completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability of these contents rests with the respective organization and NDLI has no responsibility or liability for these. Every effort is made to keep the NDLI portal up and running smoothly unless there are some unavoidable technical issues.
Ministry of Education, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), has sponsored and funded the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project.
Sl. | Authority | Responsibilities | Communication Details |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education |
Sanctioning Authority | https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives |
2 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project | https://www.iitkgp.ac.in |
3 | National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project | Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in |
4 | Project PI / Joint PI | Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project |
Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon |
5 | Website/Portal (Helpdesk) | Queries regarding NDLI and its services | support@ndl.gov.in |
6 | Contents and Copyright Issues | Queries related to content curation and copyright issues | content@ndl.gov.in |
7 | National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club) | Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach | clubsupport@ndl.gov.in |
8 | Digital Preservation Centre (DPC) | Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books | dpc@ndl.gov.in |
9 | IDR Setup or Support | Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops | idr@ndl.gov.in |