2025 INSC 1479
NON- REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 15068 OF 2025 (@Special Leave Petition (Civil) No.18702 of 2023)
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. …APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
PRANAB KUMAR NATH …RESPONDENT(S)
O R D E R
Leave Granted.
2. The Respondent- Pranab Kumar Nath was employed with
the Central Industrial Security Force1 and had been dismissed from
service in terms of order dated 1st July 2017 passed by the Senior
Commandant, CISF2 consequent to disciplinary proceedings
1 Hereinafter, referred to as ‘CISF’
2 Hereinafter, referred to as ‘Disciplinary Authority’
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drawn against him, for marrying once more in the subsistence of
his first marriage. Such dismissal was confirmed by the Appellate3
and Revisional4 Authorities. The Learned Single Judge5 and the
Division Bench6 were of the view that dismissal from service is
much too harsh a penalty, and as such, for their own reasons, each
directed the Disciplinary Authority to pass orders imposing a lesser
penalty on him. The Appellant- the Union of India, is aggrieved
thereby.
3. The facts, as laid out by the Courts/Authorities below are
that the Respondent began serving as a member of the CISF as a
Constable on 22nd July 2006. Mrs. Chandana Nath- the wife of the
Respondent, by way of a written complaint, and subsequently,
upon examination, informed the authorities that he had...