Jammu And Kashmir High Court: When Issuing Authority Verifies Experience Certificate, Counter-Signing Authorities Dental Won't Lead To Termination Sans Enquiry

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court in the case Rokade Santosh Sandashiv&Anr Vs Union of India & Anr observed and has ruled that there being mere denial of the counter signature on a certificate in the absence of proper enquiry or the finding does not warrant major punishment of termination of service, thus, the same becomes punitive in nature and particularly when the order of termination is not simpliciter but the stigma being attached to the same.

The bench comprising of Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal in the case observed while deciding a bunch of petitions filed in terms of which it had been challenged by the petitioners that their order of termination issued by the Chief Engineer Project beacon.