ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 24-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioner by filing the instant writ application has prayed for quashing the order of punishment contained in Memo no. 2088 dated 23.5.2017 passed under the signature of the Superintendent, Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital, Laheriasarai (in short ‘DMCH’) wherby the respondents inflicted the petitioners with the punishment of withholding three increments of their salary with non- cumulative effect, censure and that the petitioners would not be entitled for any backwages or any other allowance except the subsistence allowance for the period of suspension. 3. The case of the petitioners in brief is that while they were posted as Class-IV employees and were working on the post of Kaksha Sevak in the DMCH, they were placed under suspension on 25.9.2015. The petitioners were served with separate identical memo of charges contained in form ‘ka’, one of which has been brought on record as Annexure-2 to the writ application.

4. The petitioners filed their replies before the conducting officer who after concluding the inquiry submitted his inquiry report dated 26.2.2016.

5. The respondents thereafter came out