C.A.V. JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN)

Date : 16-12-2025

Heard learned counsel for the appellant-State and the respondent.

2. The present Letters Patent Appeal has been filed against the oral judgment dated 28.03.2024, as modified by the oral order dated 16.04.2024, passed in CWJC No. 7162 of 2016, whereby the writ petition filed by the writ petitioner–respondent herein has been allowed by quashing the order of punishment dated 22.10.2014 contained in Memo No. 1557, as well as the order dated 10.08.2015 issued by the Additional Secretary, Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Patna, contained in Notification No. 1772. The learned Single Judge has further directed the respondent authorities to issue all consequential orders in accordance with law within six weeks from the date of production of a copy of the said order.

3. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the finding recorded by the learned Single Judge in paragraph 18 of the judgment is as follows:

“Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the present case, it appears from the perusal of the second show-cause notice that the disciplinary authority has not followed Rule 18 of the Bihar CC