Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Service Rules | Oral Hearing Mandatory When Charges Are Denied: Supreme Court Upholds Natural Justice in Departmental Enquiries : SC
The Supreme Court has ruled that departmental enquiries are void if conducted without an oral hearing when the employee denies the charges, even when documentary evidence exists. This reinforces that procedural fairness under service rules cannot be substituted by paper-based proceedings, affecting all government and cooperative sector employees subject to disciplinary action.