1. In this writ application petitioner, an Assistant Engineer in the Road Construction Department of the Government of Bihar, has challenged the order of his suspension dated 3.4.2006, as contained in Annexure-6 to the writ application, as well as resolution dated 1.7.2006, as contained in Annexure-7 to the writ application, initiating departmental proceeding against him and issuing show cause alongwith a copy of the chargesheet asking him to submit his show cause to the enquiry officer appointed by the resolution.

2. Facts of the case are that the petitioner was appointed as Assistant Engineer vide Government notification dated 16.6.1987 in the Road Construction Department. Later on, he was placed under deputation in the Rural Engineering Organization of the Rural Development Department. While on deputation in the Rural Engineering Organization between the periods June, 1990 to September, 1993 he Was posted as Assistant Engineer in the Pupri Sub-Division at Sitamarhi. While petitioner was functioning as Assistant Engineer in Pupri Sub-Division, a complaint was filed by then M.L.A. of Runni Saidpur Assembly Constituency on 15.12.1992 in the Technical Examination Cell of the