SC Upholds Dismissal as Employee Had No Right to Representative from Another Bank’s Union

Chairman Vs M. J. James (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court allowed the appeal filed by the State Bank of India and set aside the Kerala High Court’s judgment, which had quashed disciplinary proceedings against a former Bank of Cochin branch manager on the ground that he had been denied representation by an office-bearer of an outside bank employees’ association during the departmental inquiry. The disciplinary proceedings arose from charges issued in 1984 alleging that, while serving as Manager of the Quilon Branch of the Bank of Cochin between 1978 and 1982, the respondent...