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2017 Supreme(Pat) 352

JYOTI SARAN
Pankaj Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Petitioner: M/s Nandlal Kumar Singh, Madhuri Lata, Manish Kumar, Rajeev Nayan.
For the Respondents: Mr. Yogendra Pd. Sinha.

JYOTI SARAN, J.:–Heard the parties.

2. Another allegedly corrupt government servant would be succeeding in his litigation because of the ignorance of the Disciplinary Authority as regarding the mandatory procedure underlying the Bihar Government Servants (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Disciplinary Rules’).

3. It is about time that the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar takes appropriate steps to train its officers discharging functions of a Disciplinary Authority for unless they have the time and inclination to go through ‘the Disciplinary Rules’ and understand the procedures prescribed therein, these disciplinary proceedings are proving a mockery.

4. It is because of such laches of the Disciplinary Authorities and their ignorance about the statutory procedure mandated under the ‘Disciplinary Rules’ that government servants facing serious corruption charges, succeed in the litigations. The matter is very serious and requires serious attention because the case in hand is not an isolated example rather this Court is burdened with matters clothed with statutory violations.

5. The petitioner is facing serious charges of allegedly being
























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