Adverting to this aspect, Bhagwati, J. who spoke for the Court, said: "The initial difficulty in the way of the appellant, however, is that departmen tal enquiries even though They culminate in decisions on appeals or revision cannot be equated with proceedings before the regular courts of law." Reliance was placed on the observations of this Court in State Uttar Pradesh vs Mohammad Nooh, ; , where it has been said: . an order of dismissal passed on a departmental enquiry by an officer in the department and an order passed by another officer next higher in rank dismissing an appeal therefrom and an order rejecting an application for revision by the head of the department can hardly be equated with any propriety with decrees made in a civil suit under the Code of Civil Procedure by the Court of first instance and the decree dismissing the appeal therefrom by an appeal court and the order dismissing the revision petition by a yet higher court, . . because the de partmental 48 tribunals of the first instance or on appeal or revision are not regular courts manned by persons trained in law although they may have the trapping of the courts of law , ' and the Court proceeded to say: "The analogy of the decisions of the courts of law would, therefore, be hardly available to the appellant." Alternately, the Court also examined the question as to whether when the appeal of the appellate court affirming the decree of the trial court was made, the original decree had ceased to be operative.