CAV JUDGMENT

(PER : HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE N.S.SANJAY GOWDA)

1. The petitioner, a serving Additional District Judge, has filed this petition seeking for quashing of the departmental inquiry that has been initiated against him. He has also made the prayers for reinstatement, transfer of inquiry to a Senior Judge and also for quashing of the order of suspension.

2. By way of an amendment, he has also challenged the order of the Hon’ble Judge who has rejected his prayer for discharging or dropping the inquiry initiated against him.

3. The facts which are necessary for the purpose of deciding this petition are as follows:

i. On 16.12.2024, the petitioner was placed under suspension in view of a contemplated departmental proceeding against him.

ii. On 25.1.2025, a charge-sheet was laid against the petitioner in which 6 charges were laid against him. In these 6 charges, it is alleged that the petitioner had developed intimate relations with an outsourced clerk and had also extended financial help to her and had also utilized the services of the court employees to assist her in her business venture.

iii. It is also alleged that he had obstructed the functioning of the CCTV camera by gettin