PATNA, India, July 30 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on July 14:
Heard the parties.
2. The petitioner is aggrieved with the order dated 28.12.2023 issued under the signature of the Engineer - in - Chief - cum - Additional Commissioner - cum - Special Secretary (Headquarter), Road Construction Department whereby the claim of the petitioner for grant of 1st A.C.P. with effect from 18.04.2003, 2nd M.A.C.P. with effect from 18.04.2011 and 3rd M.A.C.P. with effect from 18.04.2021 came to be rejected.
3. The petitioner was appointed as Junior Engineer in Road Construction Department long back in the year 1991; while he was discharging his duty in the Building Division, Supaul, in the mean while, he was subjected to a departmental proceeding under charge memo dated 29.08.2006. The said departmental proceeding culminated into dismissal of the petitioner on 31.01.2008. The appeal preferred by the petitioner did not find favour and both the order of the dismissal as well as appellate order were put to challenge in C.W.J.C. No. 13984 of 2008.
4. A Bench of this Court vide order/judgment dated 27.06.2018 set aside the order of dismissal as well as appellate order. Aggrieved with the order passed by the learned Single Judge, the State preferred L.P.A. No. 371 of 2019 which also came to be rejected, however, with a liberty to the State to initiate proceeding afresh from the stage of submission of charge-sheet and leading of evidence.
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