Disproportionate Punishment

Quantum of punishment disproportionate to offence:

The question of choice and quantum of punishment is within the jurisdiction of the disciplinary body; but the sentence has to suit the offence and offender;

It should not be vindictive or unduly harsh. 

It should not be so disproportionate the offence as to shock the conscience and amount in itself to conclusive evidence of bias.

"The doctrine of proportionality, as part of the concept of judicial review, would ensure that even on an aspect which is, otherwise, within the exclusive province of the disciplinary body, if the decision of that body even as to sentence is an outrageous defiance of logic, then the sentence would not be immune from correction."

Irrationality and perversity are recognized grounds of judicial review. All powers have legal limits.

"It is equally true that the penalty imposed must be commensurate with the gravity of the misconduct and that any penalty disproportionate to the gravity of the misconduct would be violative of Article 14 of the Constitution. In BhagatRam v. State of Himachal Pradesh, A.I.R. 1983 SC 454