JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

The instant appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent is directed against the order dated 19.01.2021 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(S) No.6494 of 2011, whereby and whereunder the order of punishment dated 16.12.2011 has been quashed with a direction to extend the consequential benefits within a period of 12 weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of the order.

2. The brief facts of the case as per the pleadings made in the writ petition which require to be referred herein, read as under :-

The brief facts of the case is that the respondent- writ petitioner had been appointed as an Assistant Engineer sometime in the year 1980 and subsequently, he was promoted to the post of Executive Engineer sometime in the year 2000. After bifurcation of the erstwhile State of Bihar, he was allocated Jharkhand cadre and he gave his joining in Road Construction Department, Government of Jharkhand. The writ petitioner, while posting in the Road Construction Department, was deputed under the Building Construction Department, Ranchi and thereafter, in the year 2005, he was transferred to Building Division, Hazaribagh. In the year 2006, the Road Construct