(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE I. A. ANSARI)

After a delinquent, who is proceeded against on serious charges of financial irregularities, stands punished, must a Court, in exercise of extra-ordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution, interfere with such a punishment on the ground that there was delay in taking the department proceeding to its logical conclusion?

2. The above is the moot question that falls for determination in the present appeal, which has arisen out of the order, dated 18.12.2013, passed, in CWJC No. 15296 of 2012, by a learned single Judge of this Court, disposing of the writ application with certain directions, which we would take note of a little later.

3. The material facts which led to the present appeal, may, in brief, be, set out as under:

(i)The writ petitioner, whose initial appointment, in the Department of Public Health Engineering, Government of Bihar, was as an Assistant Engineer, went to be promoted, on 18.03.1997, to the post of Executive Engineer.

(ii) On 09.08.2004, the writ petitioner joined as Executive Engineer, Public Health Engineering Division, Banka. While the writ petitioner had been working there, Superintending En