Madras High Court Partly Allowed a Police Constable's Writ Against Disciplinary Punishment for Prisoner Escape. The Court Modified the Punishment from Two Years to One Year Stoppage of Increment Without Cumulative Effect with Black Mark, Holding That Past Clean Service Records Must Be Considered When Imposing Punishment....
The petitioner, a police constable, faced disciplinary proceedings for negligence after a convicted accused he was escorting escaped at a busy Trichy bus stand. The petitioner, along with another cons...




