VIGILANCE MANUAL VOLUME III - AP Online

674 DECISION - 331
Santosh Chowdhary, Chairman of the Punjab Public Service
Commission alleging that Shri Gopal Krishna Saini, a Member of the
Commission gave her a full-blooded hard slap across her face in the
office premises of the Commission on 24.11.1982 at about 1.15 p.m.
when she enquired him the reasons for his absence on the previous
two days, the Supreme Court observed as follows:
“Persons occupying high public offices should maintain
irreproachable behaviour. A certain minimum standard of code of
conduct is expected of them. What may be excusable for an
uneducated young man cannot be tolerated if a Member of a Public
Service Commission is involved. Besides, it has to be remembered
that the respondent and the Chairman were not thrashing out a
personal matter or a private dispute. They were discussing a question
involving their office and this in broad-day-light in the open corridor
of the Commission’s building. Whatever the provocation offered by
the Chairman, the respondent was not justified in losing his cool to
the extent of indulging in physical violence. That the violence should
have been directed against a lady makes his conduct all the more
reprehensible. In our view, Shri Saini miserably failed in maintaining
the standard of conduct expected of a Member of the Commission
and thereby brought great disrepute to his office. Hence our answer
to the question referred by the President is that Shri Saini’s conduct
amounted to misbehaviour within the meaning of Article 317 (1) of
the Constitution and it rendered him liable to be removed from his
office of the Member of the Public Service Commission”.
(331)
Writ petition — interim orders
Supreme Court deprecated issue of interim orders
by courts and tribunals.
Rana Randhir Singh vs. State of U.P.,
1990(3) SLJ SC 42
While disposing of writ petitions under Art. 32 of the
Constitution by a set of direct recruits to the U.P. Police Service Class
II and by a set of promotees to the said service, where the dispute