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The Supreme Court grants relief to Class-4 Officer from Dismissal Order, saying "Big Fish Are Not Caught, You Are After Small Level Employee."

By - Kshitij Srivastava

The Supreme Court criticised the Central Government last week (June 30), saying orally that "missing from duty is a major misconduct in paramilitary forces or the army, but may not be so in a civilian employment." The employee in question was a Grade-IV employee in the Ministry of Steel, and the Central Government had imposed the penalty of dismissal from service for unauthorised absence from duty.

"Missing from duty is a major misconduct in paramilitary forces or the army. Had it been that kind of duty, we would have immediately agreed. But in a civilian employment, in some mines department, that too a class four employee? It is not that he was handling some sensitive kind of assignments where he compromised with his duties. We are agreeable that he had absented from duty, so retire him compulsorily, throw him out, don't keep him there, but allow his family to survive!".