Suspension - Indian Laws - General

Suspension As per Wharton s Law Lexicon, 14th Edn., Suspension is a temporary stop or hanging up as it were of a right for a time, also a censure on ecclesiastical persons, during which they are forbidden to exercise their office or take the profits of their benefices. Suspension means, action of debarring or state of being debarred, especially, for a time, from a function or privilege; temporary deprivation of one s office or position, or again, state of being temporarily kept from doing or deprived of something. As per Black s Law Dictionary : 7th Edn. Pg.1460, (1) to interrupt; postpone; defer (2) to temporarily keep a person from performing a function, occupying an office, holding a job or exercising a right or privilege. As per Stroud s Judicial Dictionary , Suspension or Suspense is a temporal, ie., temporary, Stop of Mans Right (Cowel). As per Bauvier s Law Dictionary , Vol.II, means A temporary stop of right, of a law , and the like. As per the Ramanatha Iyer s Dictionary , Suspension means temporary intervention or cession of something (as) office, work or labour. K.J. Aiyar s Judicial Dictionary , 14th Edn. The act of debarring for a time from a function or privilege . It means a temporary deprivation of once office or position. The suspended officer does not cease to be a public servant, he is only prevented from discharging the duties of his office for the time being. According to Oxford Dictionary , means, The action of suspending or condition of being suspended, the action debarring especially for a time from, a function or privilege, temporary deprivation of one s office or position or again, state of being temporarily kept from doing or deprived of something. As per Hemanth Kumar v. S.N.Mukherjee - 1953 (8) TMI 22 - CALCUTTA HIGH COURT Suspension is, to defer; to debar from any privilege, office employment, et., for a time being. In Abid Mohd. Khan v. State of M.P. - 1957 (10) TMI 35 - MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT Suspension cannotes temporary cessation of something as right, work or labour. The basic idea underlying the root word, suspend and all its derivatives is that a person while holding an office and performing its functions of holding a position or privilege should be interrupted in doing so and debarred for the time being from further functioning in the office or holding the position and privilege. He is intercepted in the exercise of his functions of his employment of the privilege and put aside, as it were, for a time, excluded during the period from his functions or privileges. Such is the concept of a suspension order. M/S. DANIEL AND SAMUEL LOGISTICS PVT. LTD. - 2016 (3) TMI 609 - MADRAS HIGH COURT