ORAL JUDGMENT

Date: 19-03-2024

1. The present writ petition has been filed for directing the respondents to stay the ongoing departmental proceeding till final disposal of a criminal case, bearing Buddha Colony P.S.

Case No. 628 of 2022, dated 07.12.2022.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that a departmental proceeding has been initiated against the petitioner by issuance of a chargesheet dated 29.03.2023, which is based on the allegations levelled in the aforesaid criminal case. It is further submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the departmental proceeding as also the criminal proceeding are based on same and similar set of facts, hence it would be in the interest of justice that the departmental proceeding in question is stayed till conclusion of the criminal proceeding. The learned counsel for the petitioner has relied on a judgment dated 24.12.2021, passed by this Court in CWJC No.1936 of 2021 (Shashi Bhushan Kumar Vs. The State of Bihar and Ors.), reported in 2022 (2) BLJ 100. The learned counsel for the petitioner has referred to paragraph no.6 of the said judgment, rendered in the case of Shashi Bhushan Kumar (Supra), which is reproduc