IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2568 of 2004 DR. N.L. Jha, S/o Late Jagdish Jha, resident of Mohalla Kashipur, P.S. and District Samastipur. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. The Commissioner cum Secretary to the Government, Department of Health, Government of Bihar, New Secretariat, Patna. 3. State of Jharkhand through its Chief Secretary, Govt. of Jharkhand, Ranchi. ------- Respondents ----------- 3 29.07.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, counsel for the State of Bihar as also counsel for the State of Jharkhand. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application is for payment of salary for the period of suspension. From the order of suspension itself, it would be clear that the same was revoked with a condition that the decision with regard to payment of salary for the period of suspension would be taken after receipt of the enquiry report. Admittedly, such enquiry now converted under Rule 43B of the Bihar Pension Rules is still said to be pending. In that view of the matter, while this Court for the present cannot direct for payment of salary for the period of suspension of the petitioner, but, it must 2 call upon the concerned authority of the State of Bihar to ensure that the enquiry, which has been launched against the petitioner even under Rule 43B of the Bihar Pension Rules, must be brought to an end expeditiously preferably within a period of nine months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. At this stage, counsel for the State of Bihar, however, would submit that enquiry has not been completed only because the entire record of the petitioner was sent to the State of Jharkhand. Mr. Dhrub Mukherjee, learned counsel for the State of Jharkhand would submit that such records, relating to the petitioner which may have been received from the State of Bihar would be returned back within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. With the aforementioned observations/directions, this application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)