{"id":237881,"date":"2011-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/panchal-vs-ahmedabad-on-15-july-2011"},"modified":"2017-01-26T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:18:04","slug":"panchal-vs-ahmedabad-on-15-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/panchal-vs-ahmedabad-on-15-july-2011","title":{"rendered":"Panchal vs Ahmedabad on 15 July, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Panchal vs Ahmedabad on 15 July, 2011<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: H.K.Rathod,<\/div>\n<pre>  \n Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n    \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nSCA\/8356\/2011\t 2\/ 2\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No. 8356 of 2011\n \n\n \n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nPANCHAL\nDILIPKUMAR CHANDULAL - Petitioner(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nAHMEDABAD\nMUNICIPAL CORPORATION - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nPS CHAUDHARY for\nPetitioner(s) : 1, \nNone for Respondent(s) :\n1, \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE H.K.RATHOD\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 15\/07\/2011 \n\n \n\n \n \nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>1.\tHeard<br \/>\nlearned advocate Mr.P.S.Chaudhary for petitioner.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.\tIn<br \/>\npresent petition, the grievance of present petitioner is that his<br \/>\nsalary has been reduced by respondent &#8211; Corporation without<br \/>\ngiving any opportunity to petitioner and such deduction has been made<br \/>\nby way of recovery from the salary of petitioner from the month of<br \/>\nDecember,2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.\tIf<br \/>\nthat be so, let petitioner may make detailed representation to<br \/>\nrespondent &#8211; Corporation, within a period of one month from the<br \/>\ndate of receiving copy of present order.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.\tAs<br \/>\nand when respondent &#8211; Corporation receives such representation<br \/>\nfrom petitioner, it is directed to respondent &#8211; Corporation  to<br \/>\nconsider such representation and grievance made by petitioner in<br \/>\nrepresentation and also to consider an important aspect that before<br \/>\nreducing the salary of petitioner, no reasonable opportunity of<br \/>\nhearing was given to petitioner and then, to pass appropriate<br \/>\nreasoned order as early as possible, preferably within a period of<br \/>\none month from date of receiving copy of such representation from<br \/>\npetitioner.\n<\/p>\n<p>5.\tMeanwhile,<br \/>\nlet respondent &#8211; Corporation may also wait, if apparently such<br \/>\norder of reduction in salary has been passed without following<br \/>\nprinciple of natural justice, then at least recovery from salary may<br \/>\nnot be effected.\n<\/p>\n<p>6.\tIn<br \/>\nview of above observations and directions, present petition is<br \/>\ndisposed of without expressing any opinion on merits. Direct service<br \/>\nis permitted.\n<\/p>\n<p>[<br \/>\nH.K.RATHOD, J. ]<\/p>\n<p>(vipul)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Panchal vs Ahmedabad on 15 July, 2011 Author: H.K.Rathod, Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print SCA\/8356\/2011 2\/ 2 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8356 of 2011 ========================================================= PANCHAL DILIPKUMAR CHANDULAL &#8211; Petitioner(s) Versus AHMEDABAD MUNICIPAL CORPORATION &#8211; Respondent(s) ========================================================= Appearance : MR PS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Panchal vs Ahmedabad on 15 July, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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