ORDER :

1. Since common questions of law are involved in both the writ petitions, hence with consent of the parties both the writ petitions have been heard together and are being decided by the present common order. The prayer made in both the writ petitions being identical reads as under:

“It is, therefore, humbly prayed to your lordships may graciously be pleased to accept and allow this writ petition, call for the entire record pertaining to the present matter:

(i) by issuing an appropriate writ, order or direction, the impugned memorandum of charge dated 11.8.2021 issued by the respondents may kindly be quashed and set aside.

(ii) by issuing an appropriate writ, order or direction the respondents may kindly be restrained from initiating any departmental proceeding against the petitioner on the basis of same set of facts of criminal case registered against the petitioner.

(iii) any other relief, order or direction, which this Hon’ble High Court may deem fit and proper, be also passed in favour of the petitioner.”

2. Brief facts of the case are that the petitioner-Vinod Kumar Kashyap (CWP No. 14042/2021) and petitioner Munna Lal Maurya (CWP No. 11894/2021), both were working as AG-I(D)