Excelsior Correspondent

Srinagar, Nov 17: The High Court has held the departmental proceedings against delinquent offices cannot be stopped merely pendency of criminal case on the same allegations.

Declining to extend stay on the departmental proceedings against a BSF officer challenging his suspension and departmental proceedings against him on the ground that a criminal case is pending before the court of law and departmental proceedings cannot be held till final outcome of the criminal case, Justice Sanjay Dhar held that departmental proceedings cannot be halted merely because a criminal case is pending. The High Court clarified that a stay is justified only where the criminal case is of a grave nature involving complicated questions of fact and law, and where continuation of discipli

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