RAVINDER CHOPRA vs LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA THROUGH ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR & ORS

$~P-2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Decided on 28.05.2025 W.P.(C) 13008/2019 RAVINDER CHOPRA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sumit Kumar, Advocate. versus LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA THROUGH ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR & ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Soumyajit Pani, Mr. Aishwary Bajpai, Advocates. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN JUDGMENT 1. By way of this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution, the petitioner assails an order of the Disciplinary Authority dated 07.12.2017, Appellate Authority dated 11.07.2018, and Reviewing Authority dated 03.08.2019, passed in disciplinary proceedings against him. 2. By the order of the Disciplinary Authority, a punishment of removal from service was imposed upon him, which was modified by the Appellate Authority to reduction in pay by two stages. The Reviewing Authority upheld the order of the Appellate Authority. 3. By order dated 10.12.2019 in this petition, notice was issued, limited to the question of proportionality of the punishment imposed upon 4. The disciplinary proceedings against the petitioner concerned an incident of 12.06.2016. The petitioner, who was the Secretary of an Employees’ Association of