{"id":598296,"date":"2023-08-18T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598296"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:22:10","slug":"hc-upholds-dismissal-of-railway-clerk-for-not-returning-rs-6-three-decades-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hc-upholds-dismissal-of-railway-clerk-for-not-returning-rs-6-three-decades-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"HC upholds dismissal of Railway Clerk for not returning Rs 6 three decades ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three decades after a railway clerk in Mumbai didn&#8217;t return the excess amount of Rs 6, the Bombay High Court has upheld the dismissal of a booking clerk from Kurla terminus, Mumbai. The court found substantial direct evidence of overcharging and no irregularities in the clerk&#8217;s removal from service.<\/p>\n<p>Rajesh Verma, who had been employed by the railways for just two years, faced a &#8220;decoy check&#8221; in August 1997. During this operation, a Railway Police Force (RPF) personnel posing as a passenger purchased a ticket to Ara in Bihar for Rs 214. Although he paid Rs 500, he received only Rs 280 in return. This triggered a vigilance team investigation, leading to the discovery of Rs 450 allegedly hidden in a cupboard behind Verma&#8217;s counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three decades after a railway clerk in Mumbai didn&#8217;t return the excess amount of Rs 6, the Bombay High Court has upheld the dismissal of a booking clerk from Kurla terminus, Mumbai. The court found substantial direct evidence of overcharging and no irregularities in the clerk&#8217;s removal from service. Rajesh Verma, who had been employed by the railways for just two years, faced a &#8220;decoy check&#8221; in August 1997. During this operation, a Railway Police Force (RPF) personnel posing as a passenger purchased a ticket to Ara in Bihar for Rs 214. Although he paid Rs 500, he received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}