In Brief
A retired employee of Maharashtra State Warehousing Corporation challenged departmental proceedings initiated against him eleven months after superannuation, seeking recovery of alleged financial losses. The High Court partly granted relief on retiral benefits but declined to quash the enquiry. The Supreme Court held that without an express provision in service regulations, disciplinary proceedings cannot be instituted or continued after retirement. Regulation 110 is merely residuary and does not automatically invoke Pension Rule 27 without specific Board adoption. Moreover, Rule 27 requires prior government sanction for post-retirement proceedings, which was absent. The Court quashed the departmental proceedings and ordered release of all withheld retiral benefits, holding that pension rights cannot be forfeited without clear statutory authority.
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