JUDGMENT :

B.R. SARANGI, J.

The Petitioner, who is working as Senior Technician-Cum-Operator in the Department of Shops (Structural & Fabrication), Steel Authority of India Ltd., Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela, has filed this writ petition seeking to quash the order dated 16.04.2018 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack in O.A. No. 260/00152 of 2015, at Annexure-4 and to issue direction to the Opposite Parties to release all benefits by treating the period of suspension as in duty, along with all consequential benefits.

2. The factual matrix of the case in brief, is that the Petitioner joined as Technician-Cum-Operator on 04.10.2001 under the Opposite Parties No. 3 to 5. While he was working as Senior Technician-Cum-Operator, on 12.06.2010, Opposite Party No.4 issued an order of suspension of the Petitioner on the allegation of initiation of proceeding in the court of law for commission of offences under Sections 498(A)/304-B/302/34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short “IPC”) read with Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short “D.P. Act”) with an observation that the Petitioner is placed under suspension until disposal of the criminal trial pendi