JUDGMENT :

KAKHETO SEMA, J.

1. Heard Mr. Wati Jamir, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. K. Angami, learned Sr. Government Advocate for the State respondents.

2. The present petition has been filed seeking for a direction to the State respondents to pay the full salary and other consequential benefits to the petitioner for the period during which the petitioner was under suspension i.e. w.e.f 28/12/2013 to 07/11/2020.

3. The case in brief is that, the petitioner was appointed as constable, in the police department in the year 1999 and posted under the establishment of the respondent No. 4 i.e. the Inspector General of Police (Int), Nagaland, Kohima. Thereafter, in the year 2008, the petitioner was attached to the Special Branch (Int) Dimapur, and served in that capacity till the petitioner voluntarily retired from service on 06/09/2021. It is the case of the petitioner that while he was posted at Dimapur he used to purchase firewood from the bordering area of Karbi Anglong (Assam) by cash payment as well as by making advance payment to the seller. On 28/12/2013 when the petitioner went to collect firewood at Kania Tokbi Goan from one John Kathar to whom the payment for the firew