JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

I.A. No. 2438 of 2022 :

1. Learned counsel for the appellants has submitted that he is not pressing the instant interlocutory application since the appeal has been filed in time.

2. Considering the same, the instant interlocutory application is dismissed as not pressed.

L.P.A. No. 118 of 2022:

3. The instant appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent is directed against the order/judgment dated 30.11.2021 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No. 419 of 2019, whereby and whereunder, by which the order of punishment dated 08.10.2018 imposing the punishment of dismissal from service upon the writ petitioner has been quashed and set aside with a direction that the period of absence from duty shall be regularized by the respondent-authorities in accordance with law and the same shall be treated as period spend on duty without break in service for the purpose of pension and post retiral benefits.

4. The brief facts of the case as per the pleading made in the writ petition which require to be enumerated herein, read as under:

The writ petitioner was appointed in the service of Government on the Post of Primary Teacher on the recommendat