SPECIAL APPEAL No. 313 of 2023 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:28392-DB Reserved Chief Justice's Court Case :- SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 313 of 2023 Appellant :- Pushp Raj Singh Respondent :- General Manager (H.R.M.) Indian Bank , Chennai and others Counsel for Appellant :- Alka Verma, Suryansh Narula, Tanay Hazari Counsel for Respondent :- Gopal Kumar Srivastava, Akash Deep Hon'ble Arun Bhansali, Chief Justice Hon'ble Jaspreet Singh, J. (Per : Arun Bhansali, C.J.) 1. This appeal is directed against order dated 31.03.2023 passed by learned Single Judge in Writ-A No.2562 of 2023, whereby the writ petition filed by the appellant assailing the orders dated 17.02.2022 passed by the Disciplinary Authority and 15.10.2022 passed by the Appellate Authority has been dismissed. 2. The appellant was appointed as Single Window Operator - A (SWO-A) and thereafter was working as Senior Clerk with the respondent-bank as a Class III employee. Allegations were made against the appellant for the period from 01.05.2019 to 10.06.2020, inter alia, pertaining to transfer/credit from the accounts of certain deceased persons to other accounts as well as misuse of Bancslink password of other employees of the bank. 3. On 01.07.2020, summa