Per: Hon’ble Suchitto Kumar Das, Administrative Member

The applicant has approached this Tribunal under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 praying for the following relief:

“i) An order do issue directing the respondents to release Leave Salary, full pension and DCRG in favour of the applicant with interest as admissible under the Rules since the respondents have failed to complete Disciplinary Proceedings within 90 days from the date of communication of the Order and no application praying for extension of time was filed by the respondents before the expiry of 90 days.”

2. For the sake of clarity, facts in the case as stated by the applicant in his OA, are delineated and discussed hereinunder :-

A Disciplinary Proceeding against the applicant was instituted on 07.09.2021 under Rule 14 of CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 (Converted to Rule 9 of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.

The charges against the applicant were that while working as Post Master, Cossipore Head Post Office, Kolkata for the period from 06.06.2017 to 14.12.2020, he failed to pay attention to the excess cash balances that were being held by Sinthee Post Office, Kolkata. On 11.09.2018, 14.09.2018, 29.11.2018, 01.06.20