Contents Punishment & Disciplinary Authority Punishment : The Supreme Court in the case of S.R. Tewari v. Union of India, (2013) 6 SCC 602, which read as under: The question of interference on the quantum of punishment has been considered by this Court in a catena of judgments and it was held that if the punishment awarded is disproportionate to the gravity of the misconduct, it would be arbitrary, and thus, would violate the mandate of Article 14 of the Constitution. In Ranjit Thakur v. Union of India (1987) 4 SCC 611, Apex Court observed as under: Sentence has to suit the offence and the offender. It should not be vindictive or unduly harsh. It should not be so disproportionate to the offence as to shock the conscience and amount in itself to conclusive evidence of bias. See Also: Union of India v. G. Ganayutham AIR 1997 SC 3387 State of U.P. v. J.P. Saraswat (2011) 4 SCC 545 Chandra Kumar Chopra v. Union of India (2012) 6 SCC 369 High Court of Patna v. Pandey Gaj...