1. Heard both sides.

2. The petitioner was working as an Assistant in the office of the first respondent. A charge memo dated Nil December 2009 under Rule 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1955 was issued to the petitioner alleging that the petitioner aided one Senthamaraikannan, an Assistant working in the same office, who collected lakhs of rupees from the candidates who appeared for selection to the post of Sub-Inspector of Police, assuring them that they could get employment to those candidates. A criminal complaint was registered in Crime No.6 of 2008 under Sections 120(B), 464, 465, 468, 471, 477(A), 448, 420 read with 120(b) and 109 IPC on the file of the District Crime Branch, Salem. The petitioner has now filed the present writ petition seeking to forbear the respondents in proceeding further with the disciplinary proceedings, pursuant to the aforesaid charge memo, pending disposal of the criminal proceedings in C.C.No.42 of 2010 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No.III, Salem.

3. The first respondent, by the proceedings dated 12.03.2010 appointed the third respondent as Enquriy Officer to enquire into the charges levell