‘Government officials stooped too low to punish a senior doctor on the verge of retirement’; SC sets aside penalty of 2% pension cut imposed in disciplinary action
“While it is true that principles of natural justice supplement, and not supplant, the law, such principles have been declared by the Court to be a constituent feature of Article 14. Validity of any disciplinary action, whenever questioned, has to be tested on the touchstone of Articles 14, 16 and 21 as well as Article 311(2), wherever applicable.”