INQUIRY OFFICER CAN NOT BE DIRECTED BY DA IN THE MIDDLE OF INQUIRY
AFTER CLOSE OF WITNESSES OF BOTH SIDES DA DIRECTED WITH A WRITTEN LETTER TO THE INQUIRY OFFICER TO EXAMINE MORE WITNESS FROM THE MANAGEMENT SIDE ,CSO OBJECTED BUT INQUIRY OFFICER SAID AS PER DIRECTION HE PASSES AN ORDER TO EXAMINE MORE WITNESS ,whether IO’s action is illegal on the very principle of NATURAL JUSTICE ?
Special comments -
It’s a case of UNION BANK ,proceeding is going on ,IO has made a blunder against the principle of natural justice ,he has not taken independent decisions so whole proceeding is vitiated , after defence is disclosed there can be no witness to nullify CSO’s pleading from management side more over CVC has already directed a set procedure to all the banks so know the same
अनुशासनिक अधिकारी द्वारा विभागीय जांच के चलते जांच अधिकारी को निर्देश दिया की बेंक प्रबंधन के कुछ और गवाहियों का परीक्षण किया जाए जबकि दोनों पक्ष अपने तर्क/तथ्य/गवाह प्रस्तुत कर चुके थे ,इसके लिए उन्होंने लिखित निर्देश भी जारी किया , अनुशासनिक अधिकारी के निर्देश पर जांच अधिकारी ने प्रबंधन के और गवाहियों के परीक्षण की अनुमति दी ,यह दूषित जांच कार्यवाही है क्योकि जांच अधिकारी ने स्वतंत्र निर्णय नहीं लिया ,
Independent inquiry CVC ,guideline -------
Quasi-judicial authority should decide a matter in his individual decision alone. It is one of the attributes of judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings that the officer entrusted with such functions is required to exercise his own judgment and is not amenable to any direction or orders of his superiors. That is, the essence of our judicial system. The Supreme Court had occasion to consider this aspects in a matter relating to taxing statute and remarked that when the decision of assessing authority is controlled by the directions given by others may be his superiors, it is misnomer to call their orders as judgments because the orders would essentially be the judgments of the authority that gave the direction and which authority had given the judgment without hearing the aggrieved party.
