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NAFR

HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR

WPS No. 3608 of 2018

1 - Vivekanand S/o Late Shri Premanand, Aged About 53 Years R/o Mother Teresa Ward,

Jagdalpur, Police Station Bodhghat, Tahsil And District Jagdalpur, Bastar Chhattisgarh.,

District : Bastar(Jagdalpur), Chhattisgarh

... Petitioner(s)

versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Its Secretary, Department Of Home (Police), Mahanadi,

Mantralaya, Police Station And Post Rakhi, New Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh.,

District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh

2 - Director General Of Police (D.G.P.) Police Headquarters (Phq), Near Mahanadi

Mantralaya, Police Station And Post Rakhi, New Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh.,

District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh

3 - Inspector General Of Police (I.G.P.) Office Of Inspector General Of Police (I.G.P.), Near

Nehru Chowk, Bilaspur, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh., District : Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

4 - Superintendent Of Police (S.P.) Office Of Superintendent Of Police (S.P.), Raigarh,

District Raigarh Chhattisgarh., District : Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

5 - Additional Superintendent Of Police (Addl.S.P.)/ Enquiry Officer, Office Of

Superintendent Of Police, I.U.C.A.W., Raigarh, District Raigarh Chhattisgarh., District :

Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

6 - Station House Officer, Inspector/ Presenting Officer, Police Station Sarangarh, District

Raigarh Chhattisgarh., District : Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

... Respondent(s)

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Abhishek Pandey and Mr. Rishabh Dev Sahu, Advocate

For State / : Ms. Shailja Shukla, Dy. GA and Mr. Vedant Shadangi, PL

Respondent(s)

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Hon’ble Shri Justice Sachin Singh Rajput

Order on Board

19/12/2025

This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner claiming following

reliefs :

(I) That this Hon'ble Court may also kindly be pleased to

direct the respondent authorities to produce all the relevant

records relating to case of the petitioner before this Hon'ble

Court for its kind perusal.

(ii) That this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to set

aside/quash the impugned charge sheet dated 27.7.2016

(Annexure P/1) issued by respondent No.3/Inspector

General of Police, Bilaspur.

(iii) That this Hon'ble Court may also kindly be pleased to

quash the impugned departmental enquiry proceedings

conducted against the petitioner.

(iv) That this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to quash

the impugned punishment order dated 20.3.2018 passed by

respondent No.3/Inspector General of Police, Bilaspur.

(v) That, this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to direct

the respondent authorities to give full payment including

backwages to the petitioner of the post of Sub Inspector from

20.3.2018 till his reinstatement on the post of Sub Inspector

as also the consequential seniority.

(vi) That this Hon'ble Court may further be pleased to direct

respondents to give suitable compensation to the petitioner

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for the mental trauma and agony, harassment and

hardships suffered by him as also cost of litigation.

2. The petitioner who was working as Sub-Inspector in Police Station

Pusour, District Raigarh, CG faced a departmental enquiry by issuance of a

charge-sheet dated 27.07.2016 issued by the Inspector General Of Police

(I.G.P.), Bilaspur Range Bilaspur, CG / respondent No. 3. Along with the

petitioner, three other persons namely B. R. Nag – Inspector, B. S. Karketa

– Inspector and I. M. Qureshi – Sub-Inspector were also issued with the

same charge-sheet. The charges against all the delinquent employees

mentioned in the charge-sheet are mentioned herein-below:-

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