Brishketu Saran Sinha, J.

1. The petitioner is a Superintendent of Jail. His prayer in this application is to quash annexures 5 and 6 appended to it. Annexure 5 is an order of the Government by which the petitioner has been retrospectively suspended from service from 1st January, 1981 to 17th August, 1982, and annexure 6 is another communication of the same date by which the petitioner has been suspended from the date of the issue of the order until a final decision is taken on a departmental proceeding going on against the petitioner. The further prayer is to quash the departmental proceedings initiated against the petitioner as well and to direct the Government to allow the petitioner to continue as Superintendent. Central Jail, Bhagalpur. Subsequently, a employer has also been made by an application filed in this case to reconsider the petitioners case for regular promotion in accordance with the direction given by this Court in the judgment dated 30th October, 1975, passed in C.W.J.C. No. 1138 of 1973. It may be noted here that this prayer has not been pressed during the hearing of this case.

2. The relevant tacts, according to the petitioner, are that on the result of