IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CIVIL WRIT JURISDICTION CASE No.6386 of 2011 Laljee Paswan SONOF LATE BASANT PASWAN RESIDENT OF MISHRAWALLIA, P.S. BUXAR MUFASSIL, DISTRICT BUXAR Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors ---------------------------------- 2 03/08/2011 Petitioner stood suspended vide order dated 28.11.2008. The allegation against him is that he is a chowkidar who was duly posted in the Bank when Bank dacoity happened. He was cited as a witness but during the course of trial he went back on his statements and turned hostile. After suspension a departmental proceeding had been initiated but it does not seem to have reached any conclusion because the counter affidavit filed on behalf of respondent nos. 5 and 8 still indicates that there still correspondences are going on between the Superintendent of Police and the District Magistrate. What relevance the same has with regard to holding of a departmental enquiry is not understood by this Court but looking at the time frame since when the petitioner is under suspension and there is failure on the part of the respondents to conclude the enquiry and pass appropriate order, this writ application is disposed of - 2 - with a direction that the decision by the disciplinary authority on the status of the petitioner must be taken within a period of two months from today. If it is not done, annexure-2 which is an order of suspension, would be deemed to have been quashed. So far as the departmental enquiry is concerned, the Court directs that it has to be taken to its logical end now within a reasonable time frame and will not subsist till eternity. This writ application is disposed of with a direction upon the District Magistrate, Buxar in this regard to do the needful. AMIN/ (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)