PUNJAB & SIND BANK versus SH. RAJ KUMAR

Case summary from SCR

Issue for Consideration Whether the imposition of lighter punishment on the co-delinquents while imposing the punishment of ‘dismissal from service’ upon the respondent is in outright defiance of logic. Headnotes† Punjab and Sind Officer Employees’ (Conduct) Regulations, connived with two others (one officer and a gunman) to misappropriate money of the customers for their personal gain, stealing bank records, etc. – The disciplinary authority imposed the penalty of compulsory retirement on the co- delinquent gunman while the co-delinquent officer