D.C.Chauhan v. Hy. Tourism Corporation Ltd.
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+ )**+ The Supreme Court in Board Of Trustees Of The Port Of Bombay vs Dilipkumar Raghavendranath Nadkarni, AIR 1983 SUPREME
- 6 - COURT 109, dwelled upon the aspect as to whether where in a disciplinary enquiry by a domestic tribunal, the employer complaining misconduct appoints legally trained person as Presenting-cum- Prosecuting Officer, the denial or refusal of a request by the delinquent employee seeking permission to engage a legal practitioner would violate one of the essential principles of natural justice and answered it in the following words:- "The time honoured and traditional approach in regard to a domestic enquiry in industrial disputes is that it is a managerial function which would be best left to the management without the intervention of persons belonging to the legal profession.
This approach was based on the ground that a domestic enquiry should not be unduly inhibited by strict rules of evidence and procedural laws and that in the informal atmosphere in which the enquiry is conducted the delinquent would be able to defend himself. Whatever justification there might have been in the past for holding this view, the position today is altogether different. Industrial establishments employ on their rolls an impressive array of labour officers and legal advisors in the garb of employees. These officers are appointed as presenting and prosecuting officers for conducting the management's case in a domestic enquiry. The enquiry officer, more often than not, is a man of the establishment doning the robes of a judge. The enquiry is held in the establishment's office or part of it.
It does not bear any comparison to an adjudication by an impartial arbitrator or a Court presided over by an unbiased judge. Witnesses are generally employees of the management which orders the enquiry. In short the scales are weighted in favour of the management and against the workman...
- 7 - ...The aphorism that "justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done" is not a euphemism applicable to courts alone; it should apply with equal vigour to all those responsible for fairplay in action. A quasi-judicial tribunal cannot view the situation with equanimity where there is inequality of representation..."
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1. Whether speaking/reasoned?
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2. Whether reportable?
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