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IO issued additional evidence which is mentioned in chargesheet
16-Feb-2026 (In Labour & Service Law)
My departmental proceedings started on Dated 03.10.25 on basis of a letter dated 03.01.2025. IO issued a chargesheet dated 13.10.2025 and given the same basis letter as an evidence dated 03.1.2025 along with chargesheet. I have submitted written submission denying all the charges with evidence. IO skip the cross examination part. IO issued a letter and saying in written I have additional evidence and call me for personal hearing. What should I do? This additional evidence is date 26.01.2025.
Your situation is legally sensitive and must not be taken lightly.
When an Inquiry Officer introduces new evidence after issuing the charge sheet, skips cross-examination, and directly calls you for personal hearing, it usually indicates that the department is trying to close the matter quickly against you. If this stage is mishandled, it can directly result in major penalty, dismissal, loss of service benefits, and long-term career damage.
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Adv. Vaibhav Sangam Mishra
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Departmental proceedings must follow natural justice but are not bound by strict Evidence Act rules.
Court mainly examines: Violation of natural justice
Procedural irregularity
Perverse findings
Is this under state or centre govt?
Non-supply of documents or denial of opportunity = violation of natural justice.
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Adv. Amit Kumar
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If some punishment is awarded without affording opportunity to cross examine the prosecution witnesses nor permitted to adduce the evidence in defence as it is mandatorily required under Rule 7(4) of the U.P. Government Servant (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, 1999, the whole inquiry proceedings stands illegal and vitiated. There is a Supreme court citation in your support also which is State of U.P. v. Saroj Kumar Sinha, (2010) 2 SCC 772, while interpreting Rule 7 of the 1999 Rules, has held that where no opportunity is given to the delinquent employee to cross-examine witnesses and no oral evidence is recorded, the Inquiry Officer acts as a prosecutor as well as a judge and such inquiry stands vitiated being violative of natural justice.
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