The Bombay High Court has set aside the dismissal of a Mumbai Port Trust (MBPT) employee, observing that the departmental inquiry was marred by “unexplained and inordinate delay” and lacked evidence independent of a criminal case that had already ended in the employee’s acquittal. Justice Amit Borkar, presiding over a Single Judge Bench, ruled that
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