dvantage of taking recourse to minor penalty proceedings

4. What is the advantage of taking recourse to minor penalty proceedings? Minor penalty proceedings can be concluded with minimum loss of time. In most of the cases, final order in a minor penalty proceedings could be passed in less than four weeks of framing of charges, unless consultation with UPSC is necessary. As rightly observed by the Hota Committee, “a minor penalty swiftly but judiciously 74 imposed by a Disciplinary Authority is much more effective than a major penalty imposed after years spent on a protracted Inquiry.”