The Supreme Court on Monday (October 27) set aside the 37-year-old dismissal of a Railway Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE), holding that the disciplinary findings were perverse and unsupported by evidence. The employee, who passed away during the prolonged litigation, will now have all consequential benefits released to his legal heirs.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra set aside the Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench order, allowing the appeal filed by the legal heirs of the deceased employee, restoring the earlier decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), which had quashed the dismissal order. The Court strongly criticized the Railway authorities' enquiry process and the Bombay High Court's subsequent approval of it.

It was alleged that the decease

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