ssp 1 WP(L) 2542 of 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (L) NO.2542 of 2010 Manu Keshav Bambhniya .....Petitioner versus The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. and Ors. ..... Respondents Mr.D.S.Sapkale, for the petitioner. Mr.K.P.Anilkumar, for the petitioner. CORAM: P.B.MAJMUDAR& MRS.MRIDULA BHATKAR,JJ. DATE: 10th DECEMBER,2010. P.C. : 1. This petition is filed at an interlocutory stage wherein the departmental inquiry is pending against the petitioner. The grievance of the petitioner is that since the respondent No.10 was also held to be responsible by the Preliminary Committee, the chargesheet may also be issued against respondent No.10 and a group inquiry should be held. It is alternatively prayed that departmental inquiry may be set aside. The petitioner has served as a Chargeman and attached to the duty of refueling an aircraft. The petitioner refused to discharge his duty with a result that two air crafts were stranded. According to the petitioner, his superior had not asked him and the said duty was required to be done by respondent No.10 and not by him. ssp 2 WP(L) 2542 of 2010 2. In our view, when the departmental inquiry is pending against the petitioner, this is not a case in which we would like to intercept the proceedings at such an interlocutory stage and it will be open to the petitioner to take all available defence before the Inquiry Officer in a pending inquiry. The petition is not required to be interfered with at such an interlocutory stage. Hence, the writ petition is rejected. ( MRS.MRIDULA BHATKAR, J. ) ( P.B.MAJMUDAR, J. )