P&H: Upholds MARKFED Employee’s Dismissal Over Rs 2.56 Crore Wheat Shortage The Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by a MARKFED Branch Officer challenging his dismissal over a massive wheat stock shortage, holding that the disciplinary authority lawfully dispensed with a regular inquiry by recording cogent reasons and that a full-fledged inquiry would have been a “useless formality.” The case arose after a September–October 2018 physical verification at MARKFED’s Batala
P&H: Upholds MARKFED Employee’s Dismissal Over Rs 2.56 Crore Wheat Shortage
punjab-haryana
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26 May 2026
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MARKFED Punishment & Appeal Rules, 1990, Rules 6, 10, 12(ii), 12(iii) — Dispensing with regular inquiry — Managing Director recorded specific reasons founded on petitioner’s own signatures on physical verification reports acknowledging massive shortage and on resultant financial loss to MARKFED - Invocation of R.12(ii)/(iii) was not mechanical and was justified in interest of Federation. (Para 9) MARKFED Punishment & Appeal Rules, 1990, Rules 6, 10, 12(ii), 12(iii) — Dispensing with regular inquiry - Shortage
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