VIGILANCE MANUAL VOLUME III - AP Online

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an election while being a member of the Service, and it is a reasonable
restriction and a valid classification of the entire class of employees
of the Corporation, and is within the power of the Corporation and is
valid. The High Court accordingly dismissed the writ petition.
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(A) Evidence — circumstantial
(B) Evidence — standard of proof
(C) Court jurisdiction
Where an employee was removed from service on
a charge of assembling, manufacturing and selling
spurious EC TV Set clandestinely, based on the
receipt issued by the employee in his own
handwriting giving description of the T.V. Set and
recovery of the T.V. set from residence of the
purchaser, though the purchaser, who later retracted
from his earlier sworn affidavit, was not examined
at the inquiry, High Court held this is not a case of
no evidence and High Court cannot interfere under
Art. 226 of the Constitution.
B. Karunakar vs. Managing Director, ECIL, Hyderabad,
1989(6) SLR AP 124
The petitioner, an Engineering Graduate in Electronics having
secured first rank in University Examination, serving as Technical
Officer (Trainee) in the Electronics Corporation of India, Hyderabad
from 1-3-1978 was proceeded against in disciplinary proceedings
and was removed from service.
The charge against the petitioner was that he was
assembling, manufacturing and selling spurious EC TV Sets
clandestinely. The ball was set in motion on a complaint given by
one B. Raj Kumar alleging that he had purchased an ‘Ajanta’ black
and white T.V. set from the petitioner. The said Raj Kumar had not