Chandigarh, Oct. 3 -- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Chandigarh bench, has quashed the termination of an employee of the office of the accountant general, Haryana, observing that the department failed to follow due process before taking punitive action against him over allegations of impersonation in a Staff Selection Commission (SSC) recruitment examination.

The employee, Sunil Kumar, was appointed as a data entry operator in 2015 after being selected through the SSC examination. He completed his two-year probation period in August 2017.

The department subsequently alleged discrepancies in the photograph and signatures/handwriting in the recruitment records and suspected that Kumar had not appeared in the examination himsel...