ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 28-06-2024

1. The petitioner has filed the present writ application challenging the order of punishment bearing Memo No. 5832, dated 20.10.2016 (Annexure 9), passed by the Director SC/ST, Welfare Department, whereby the punishment of censure in a department inquiry, has been imposed and further that the petitioner would not be entitled for any payment except the subsistence allowance during the period of suspension. The petitioner has prayed for consequential relief for quashing the appellate order bearing Memo No. 824, dated 29.03.2017 (Annexure 10), passed by the Appellate Authority affirming the order of punishment. The petitioner has further prayed for a direction upon the respondent to pay the petitioner’s salary for the period 04.07.2015 to 17.12.2015.

2. Brief facts of the case, as per the statement made in the writ petition that the petitioner was appointed as Assistant Teacher in physical education in the year 1994 and was posted in Government Residential High School, Sugaon, East Champaran. In the year 2007, the service of the petitioner was brought under Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe Welfare Department and in the year 2011 the petitioner was posted at G