'Sponsored' Foreign Travel: Delhi High Court Upholds Judicial Officer's Dismissal For 'Accepting Favour' From 'Stranger', says Judge Always Open To Be Judged
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'Sponsored' Foreign Travel: Delhi High Court Upholds Judicial Officer's Dismissal For 'Accepting Favour' From 'Stranger', says Judge Always Open To Be Judged

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“A Judge is a Judge who is always open to be judged,” the Delhi High Court said on Thursday while upholding a judicial officer's dismissal from service for allegedly accepting a "favour" from a "stranger".A division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Saurabh Banerjee made the observation while refusing to reduce a major penalty of dismissal of service imposed on the judicial. “A Judge is a Judge who is always open to be judged,” the Delhi High Court said on Thursday while upholding a judicial officer's dismissal from service for allegedly accepting a "favour" from a "stranger". A division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Saurabh Banerjee made the observation while refusing to reduce a major penalty of dismissal of service imposed on the judicial officer. “As such, based on what the records reveal, this Court infers that the Officer has all throughout followed the enshrined principles of natural justice at all stages and has noted and considered all materials/ documents including the deposition of all the witnesses,” the court said.

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