{"id":244123,"date":"2009-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/harnek-singh-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-on-5-september-2009"},"modified":"2017-03-31T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:16:06","slug":"harnek-singh-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-on-5-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/harnek-singh-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-on-5-september-2009","title":{"rendered":"Harnek Singh vs State Of Haryana And Others on 5 September, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n
Harnek Singh vs State Of Haryana And Others on 5 September, 2009<\/div>\n
     IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                       CHANDIGARH\n\n\n                               Civil Writ Petition No.16741 of 2000\n                               Date of decision:05.09.2009\n\nHarnek Singh                                               ...Petitioner\n\n                               versus\n\nState of Haryana and others                               ...Respondents\n\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN\n\n\nPresent:     Mr. Gurcharan Dass, Advocate, for the petitioner.\n\n             Ms. Monica Chhibbar Sharma, Deputy Advocate General,\n             Punjab.\n                        ----\n<\/pre>\n
1.     Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the
\n       judgment ? Yes.\n<\/p>\n
2.     To be referred to the reporters or not ? Yes.\n<\/p>\n
3.     Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? Yes.\n<\/p>\n
                            —-\n<\/p>\n
K.Kannan, J.(Oral)<\/p>\n
1.           The award under challenge is only as regards the<\/p>\n
modification of punishment that was made by the Labour Court. The<\/p>\n
workman had been served with an order of termination of service for<\/p>\n
absence from duty from 14.09.1984 to 20.12.1984 unauthorizedly. The<\/p>\n
Labour Court found the punishment to be excessive and by applying the<\/p>\n
powers under Section 11-A of the Industrial Disputes Act modified the<\/p>\n
punishment to one of withdrawal of three increments with cumulative<\/p>\n
effect.\n<\/p>\n
2.           The award was passed by the Labour Court on 29.02.1996<\/p>\n
and the challenge was made in the writ petition by filing the case<\/p>\n
on 29.11.2000. The contention of the learned counsel was that the
\n Civil Writ Petition No.16741 of 2000                           -2-<\/span><\/p>\n
punishment which was substituted by the Labour Court itself was grossly<\/p>\n
excessive. He would point out that the absence from duty from<\/p>\n
14.09.1984 to 20.12.1984 when the order of termination was issued was<\/p>\n
on account of the fact that he was not permitted to join the duty and it<\/p>\n
was not merely a case of unauthorized absence. Before the Labour<\/p>\n
Court, evidence was tendered to the effect that he joined duty after leave<\/p>\n
from 11.07.1984 to 31.08.1984 on 01.09.1984. He continued in duty<\/p>\n
upto 13.09.1984 after which he remained absent. The workman sought<\/p>\n
to file documents in Court showing that he had sent letters offering to<\/p>\n
resume duty when the workman had prevented from joining. The Labour<\/p>\n
Court considered the copies of the letter to have been procured for the<\/p>\n
purpose of the case and did not believe the genuineness of the<\/p>\n
documents. It found, therefore, the misconduct attributed to him to had<\/p>\n
been established.\n<\/p>\n
3.          The learned counsel appearing for the workman would<\/p>\n
contend again that the change of address had been informed to the<\/p>\n
management and all the communications which had been sent were<\/p>\n
directed only from his changed address and the finding of the Labour<\/p>\n
Court that the documents were not true, was not justified. The finding of<\/p>\n
the Labour Court on the genuineness of the documents had been made on<\/p>\n
the basis of the fact that the workman filed the same after substantially a<\/p>\n
long period and the demand notice itself had been issued fairly after a<\/p>\n
long period and found also that the documents could not be true. I do not<\/p>\n
feel inclined to interfere with a question of fact and the inference<\/p>\n
made by the Labour Court after setting out its reasons. If the proof of
\n Civil Writ Petition No.16741 of 2000                           -3-<\/span><\/p>\n
misconduct was thus established, the Labour Court had given a finding<\/p>\n
that the punishment of dismissal was excessive and modified in the<\/p>\n
manner referred to above.      The further interference as regards the<\/p>\n
punishment and provide for a still lesser punishment seems to be out of<\/p>\n
place before this Court. The jurisdiction and the breadth of discretion<\/p>\n
under Article 226 is not unbridled. It conforms to well established legal<\/p>\n
norms and parameters. The interference in the matter of punishment<\/p>\n
shall be only in cases where the punishment is either capricious or<\/p>\n
grossly disproportionate. I do not think it shall be proper to interfere<\/p>\n
with the punishment already imposed.\n<\/p>\n
4.          The learned counsel for the workman sought to contend that<\/p>\n
even the punishment of stoppage of increments with cumulative effect<\/p>\n
was not provided under the Punjab Civil Services (Punishment and<\/p>\n
Appeal) Rules. He refers to Rule 5 of the penalties that prescribes in sub-<\/p>\n
clause (iv) a provision for withholding of increments of pay. There is no<\/p>\n
reference according to him for withholding of pay with cumulative<\/p>\n
effect. A decision of the Division Bench of this Court in relation to Rule<\/p>\n
5(iv) was made in Sham Lal Versus District and Sessions Judge,<\/p>\n
Ferozepur-1994(3) SCT 829. The Division Bench was dealing with the<\/p>\n
case of the extent of minor penalties which the rules provided for. The<\/p>\n
Court found on examination of records that the management was<\/p>\n
thinking of applying only a punishment as a minor penalty and it had<\/p>\n
specifically referred in paragraph 8 “To arrive at this conclusion, we had<\/p>\n
to peruse the nature of the charges levelled against the delinquent<\/p>\n
officials and the report of the Inquiry Officers. The petitions can be
\n Civil Writ Petition No.16741 of 2000                            -4-<\/span><\/p>\n
disposed of appropriately with a direction of punishment to be<\/p>\n
simpliciter withholding of increment for the period specified in the<\/p>\n
orders impugned before us without having cumulative effect.” This<\/p>\n
modification was made in the context of how the Court perceived even<\/p>\n
the management to have seen the misconduct and that the penalty that<\/p>\n
was contemplated was only a minor penalty. In this case, the<\/p>\n
unauthorized absence beyond the sanctioned leave for three months<\/p>\n
constituted major misconduct. The major penalty provided for included<\/p>\n
the action for termination of service.     It was not a case where the<\/p>\n
misconduct was not established. The misconduct was found established<\/p>\n
but still the punishment of termination was found to be excessive and,<\/p>\n
therefore, the modification was made. The major penalty includes a<\/p>\n
provision for stoppage of increments and putting him even on lower<\/p>\n
scale. The stoppage of three increments with cumulative effect was,<\/p>\n
therefore, a punishment which is not against any rule, but if the conduct<\/p>\n
is taken to be a major misconduct, a punishment of such a nature was<\/p>\n
perfectly justified. The Court will be loathe to interfere in matters of the<\/p>\n
quantum of punishment if it is a case where the power of the Court to<\/p>\n
inflict such punishment is also seen as not in contravention of any rule.<\/p>\n
5.          The writ petition itself was a belated attempt on the part of<\/p>\n
the workman to seek a modification as regards the punishment. The<\/p>\n
award of the Labour Court as I have already indicated was in February,<\/p>\n
1996 and the writ petition was filed in November 2000, that was close<\/p>\n
to five years, after the impugned award.         The writ petition would<\/p>\n
require a rejection without more on the ground of laches itself but I have
\n Civil Writ Petition No.16741 of 2000                              -5-<\/span><\/p>\n
undertaken the exercise of examining the case on merits lest the<\/p>\n
workman is ever left with a belief that his grievance was not fully<\/p>\n
addressed.\n<\/p>\n
6.           The award, under the circumstances, is fully justified and the<\/p>\n
challenge to the writ petition fails and accordingly dismissed.<\/p>\n
                                                     (K.KANNAN)
\n                                                        JUDGE
\n05.09.2009
\nsanjeev\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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