TUKARAM SADASHIV MANE vs THE CHAIRMAN, MUMBAI PORT TRUST

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Neeta Sawant WP-1933/2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 1933 OF 2009 Tukaram Sadashiv Mane ….. PETITIONER : VERSUS : The Chairman, The Mumbai Port Trust …. RESPONDENT Mr. Mulanshu Vora i/b Mr. Avinash K. Jalisatgi, for Petitioner. Mr. Dhruva Gandhi with Mr. Dheer Sampat i/b M.V. Kini & Co., for Respondent. CORAM : SANDEEP V. MARNE, J. DATED : 20 February 2026. Judgment:- 1) Petitioner, Ex-Station Master employed by Mumbai Port Trust is aggrieved by Part-I and Part-II Awards rendered by the Presiding Officer, Central Government Industrial Tribunal-II, Mumbai in Reference No. (CGIT) 2/166 of 1999. The Tribunal has rejected the Reference made in relation to dismissal of the Petitioner from service. 2) Brief facts of the case are that Petitioner was appointed as Junior Trains Clerk on 19 August 1965 in Railway Department of the erstwhile Bombay Port Trust, which is now named as Mumbai Port Trust. The Port Trust has set up a railway line for facilitating movement of the ____________________________________________________________________________ PAGE NO. 1 of 23 20 FEBRUARY 2026 Neeta Sawant WP-1933/2009 consignments. Petitioner was promoted during his service career to the position of Station Master Grade-II. During 23 February 1990 to 30 August 1994, he was posted as Station Master, Grade-II at Grains Depot of the BPT-Railway. While working so, chargesheet dated 2 January 1995 was issued to the Petitioner proposing to hold departmental enquiry against him under the Employees (Conduct) Regulations, 1976 read with the BPT Employees (Classification, Control and Appeals) Regulations, 1976. It was alleged in the chargesheet that the Petitioner, while working as Station Master, Grade-II, had forwarded two commerc