JUDGMENT :

TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA J.

1. Petitioner who is serving as a Head Constable under the Haryana Police has filed the instant petition assailing communication dated Nil (Annexure P-4) issued by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Traffic Highway, Gurugram, in terms of which departmental proceedings stand initiated against him. Impugned communication at Annexure P-4 is in the nature of a charge-sheet. Primary ground of challenge is that on the same set of allegations FIR No. 506 dated 28.07.2020 under Sections 186, 332, 353 and 506 IPC stands registered against the petitioner at Police Station Shivaji Nagar Colony, District Rohtak.

2. Learned Senior counsel at the very outset submits that he is not pressing the challenge to the impugned charge-sheet at Annexure P-4 but would confine the scope of the instant writ petition only as regards keeping the departmental proceedings in abeyance till such time the criminal trial against the petitioner does not conclude.

3. Brief facts pleaded are that marriage of the petitioner was solemnized in the year 2003 and two children were born out of wedlock. However due to temperamental differences wife of the petitioner started living separatel