ORDER

1. After the interminable hearing of this appeal had gone on for quite some time lasting for several days, the appellants have filed an affidavit sworn by K.V. Choudhary, Under Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) today. Apart from revealing that the government has no desire or intention to spare any officer who is found to have intentionally flouted government instructions and orders with regard to deposit of seized cash etc. and that it had already issued instructions on September 2, 1986 to all the Directorates concerned to review the cases of delay in deposit of seized cash and report the facts, it is further stated that after receiving the reports the government proposes to scrutinise each and every case and initiate the necessary disciplinary action against such of the officers who may be found to have deliberately flouted government instructions and delayed deposits, in the light of the advice given by the Central Administrative Tribunal. This was in answer to a question put by us to learned counsel for the appellants on September 25, 1986 as to whether the government proposed to initiate departmental proceedings against officers s