JUDGMENT :

S.N. Prasad, J.

The petitioner being aggrieved with the decision as taken under Annexure-3 dated 7.10.1997 whereby and where under the decision taken by the Departmental Promotion Committee has not been acted upon on the ground of penalty having been imposed upon him in consequence of conclusion of the departmental proceeding.

2. Fact of the case is that the petitioner while working as Junior Management Grade Scale-I Officer he was subjected to Departmental Promotion Committee for consideration of his promotion from Scale-I to Scale-II Officer. The meeting of the Departmental Promotion Committee was held in the month of December, 1993 but one memorandum of charge was served upon him on 16.3.1993 with respect to commission of some irregularities in discharging official duty. The D.P.C. has considered the case of the petitioner and kept the decision in sealed cover awaiting final outcome of the departmental proceeding and the departmental proceeding has ended in imposing punishment of reduction of basic pay by one stage lower in the existing scale of pay for one year as per the Annexure-2 annexed to the writ petition, the competent authority after considering the fact that th