WP(C) 5285/2008 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE B. K. SHARMA Heard Ms. P. Khatun, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as Mr. M .Z. Ahmed, learned Senior counsel assisted by Mrs. B. Dutta, learned counsel for the respondents. The petitioner, who is working under the respondents as Deputy Chief Sec urity Officer, has filed this writ petition, praying for a direction to the resp ondents to provide him with necessary facilities towards discharge of his duties effectively and also to pay him salary from 15.8.2008. According to the learned counsel for the petitioner, he is entitled to receive his salary from 15.8.2008 to 01.02.2009 and that the respondents have illegally withheld the same. The stand of the respondents is that the petitioner was unauthorisedly a bsent for the period and accordingly he is not entitled to receive salary. Anoth er allegation made against the petitioner is that although he was absent from du ty for the particular period but latter on he put his signature in the Attendanc e Register to show his presence in duty. The respondents in their counter affida vit, apart from enclosing the copies of the show cause notices issued to the pet itioner, has also enclosed the memorandum of charge sheet dated 20.10.2008, in w hich altogether 3(three) charges of unauthorised absence from duty and signing t he Attendance Register without being present, have been levelled. During the course of argument, learned counsel for the parties have subm itted that during the pendency of the writ petition, the petitioner has been tra nsferred to Mahanadi Coal Field in Orissa. Learned counsel for the petitioner su bmits that since the retirement of the petitioner on attaining the age of supera nnuation is first approaching, the departmental proceeding should come to an end at an early date, to which Mr. Ahmed, learned counsel for the respondents submi ts that the said proceeding could not be concluded due to non-cooperation of the petitioner. In view of the above, this writ petition is disposed of directing the re spondents to complete the proceeding as expeditiously as possible facilitating w hich the petitioner shall also extend full cooperation. In the event of non-coop eration and non-participation of the petitioner in the proceeding, it will be op en for the respondents to proceed exparte. Needless to say that the petitioner w ould be entitled to all reasonable opportunities of being heard. Subject to the outcome of the aforesaid proceeding, the service conditions of the petitioner wi ll govern. The writ petition stands disposed of.