Judge gets justice after seven years
New Delhi, July 10: A subordinate court judge, proceeded against and sacked on the basis of media reports that he came to the court in an “inebriated” condition and misbehaved with an accused and a police constable, was exonerated by the Supreme Court after seven years.
“The inquiry was held against the appellant, Mr Indu Bhushan Dwivedi, on three charges, the most serious of which was that, he misbehaved after having consumed liquor. Out of the three charges, this charge was not found proved,” a bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and C.K. Prasad in a judgement ruled.
The judgement came on an appeal of Mr Dwivedi, who was the judicial magistrate posted in Chaibasa in Jharkhand, when the report regarding the incident was published in a local newspaper on July 2, 2003.
The Jharkhand High Court administration then took initiated an inquiry. Upset with it, the judge used “derogatory words” in the letter written to the Registrar General of the High Court, while he left his station of posting without permission.
The Supreme Court found Dwivedi “guilty” of only these two counts.
The top court recommended that the HC administration should impose the punishment on Dwivedi proportionate to these allegations.
after the same were assessed again.
The Supreme Court found Dwivedi “guilty” of only these two counts.
In fact the Supreme Court found Dwivedi "guilty" of only these two counts.
The judge, who was upset on the media report, his reply committed a problem for himself as he used "derogatory words" in the letter written to the Registrar General (RG) of the High Court while he had left his station of posting without permission from his superiors.
In fact the Supreme Court found Dwivedi "guilty" of only these two counts. But said that the report about his drunken state in media, had "seriously prejudiced" his case as the High court administration after considering his reply, had recommended his dismissal from the service, which was accepted by the Jharkhand government in Febraury 2006.
While "disapproving" his twin mistakes – leaving the station and using derogatory words in his letter – the top court came to the conclusion that the whole matter needed to be re-examined after the more serious charge of drunken state was found incorrect.
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