Disciplinary Proceedings Can Be Quashed In Entirety Only When ‘Show-Cause Notice’ Is Bad

Case: Union of India & Ors. v. Dharamvir Singh

Coram: Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W. Diengdoh

Case No.: WP(C) No. 444 of 2020

Court Observation: “Such a drastic order may be passed, but only upon the forum recording a satisfaction that the very show-cause notice on the basis of which the disciplinary proceedings were initiated was bad. Judicial precedents instruct that it is a tall order for a show-cause notice to be quashed, just like an FIR may be quashed only in the rare case when no ingredients of any offence is made out therein.”

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