IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No.342 of 2011 IN CIVIL WRIT JURISDICTION CASE No. 17906 of 2009 WITH INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATION No. 1466 of 2011 IN LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No.342 of 2011 ==================================================== 1. The State of Bihar through Chief Secretary, Old Secretariat, Patna. 2. The Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Old Secretariat, P.O. G.P.O., Patna, District-Patna. 3. The Additional Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Old Secretariat, P.O. G.P.O., Patna, District-Patna. 4. The Director, Statistics & Planning, Directorate, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, P.O.-G.P.O., District-Patna. 5. The Collector, Vaishali at P.O.+P.S.+Town-Hajipur, District-Vaishali. …. …. Respondents-Appellants Versus Ramroop Singh, son of Late Janki Singh, R/o Mohalla-Chankya Nagar, Kumharar, P.O.-Bahadurpur Housing Colony, P.S.-Agamkuan, District- Patna. …. …. Petitioner-Respondent ==================================================== Appearance : For the Appellant : Mr. Syed Arshad Alam, S.C.-3 Mr. Fakruddin Ali Ahmad, A.C. to S.C.-3 ==================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE) 3. 1.3.2011. This Appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent arises from the judgment and order dated 28th June 2010 passed by the learned single Judge in above C.W.J.C. No. 17906 of 2009 is filed 140 days beyond the period of limitation. The delay has not been satisfactorily explained. On merits also we find that the Letters Patent Appeal is frivolous. The learned single Judge has set - 2 - aside the order of punishment of censure and withholding of two increments without future effect imposed upon the writ petitioner on 27th October 2008, 15 years after the commencement of the disciplinary proceeding. The aforesaid punishment was imposed upon the writ petitioner on the charge of insubordination. We see no error committed by the learned single Judge. The appeal and the application are dismissed. Pawan/- (R.M. Doshit, CJ) (Jyoti Saran, J)