IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.3094 of 2008 Bhagirath Mahto, Son of Kailash Mahto, Resident of Village Kharkatwa, Police Station Ramgarhwa, District-East Champaran. ……Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. Sri Ashish Ranjan Sinha, the Director General of Police, Bihar, Patna. 3. Sri Arvind Kr. Pandey, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Tirhut Range, Muzaffarpur. 4. Sri Sushil Kumar Jha, the Superintendent of Police, Sheohar. …..Contemnor/Opposite Parties. ----------- 06. 03.07.2009 Heard the parties. Petitioner got relief from a Division Bench of this Court and the order of punishment was quashed holding the petitioner entitled to all consequential benefits. The grievance of the petitioner is that till date the authorities have not paid him consequential monetary benefits. The stand of the respondents in the show cause and supplementary show cause is that only notional consequential benefits of reinstatement could be given to the petitioner because he was already under suspension in connection with another proceeding pursuant to which he has been subsequently dismissed from service and hence no other consequential benefits could be paid to him. - 2 - In contempt jurisdiction we are not persuaded to examine what should be lawful course of action in such a situation. Whatever consequential benefits are found payable to the petitioner in accordance with law taking into account his entire service record and other lawful orders passed against him should be calculated and paid to him without any delay and in any case within two months from today. If nothing is payable then the stand of the State should be communicated to the petitioner giving reasons in brief. It goes without saying if petitioner is aggrieved by the stand of the State on account of non-payment of any monetary benefits he would be at liberty to challenge such a decision through an appropriate proceeding in accordance with law. The contempt petition is finally disposed of. Vikash/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, ACJ.) (Anjana Prakash, J.)