IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5889 of 2011 RATAN KUMAR MISHRA,S/0 late Chandra Kishore Mishra, R/0 Village & Post- Rohar, P.S. Benipur, District- Darbhanga, at present posted in the Regional Office, Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Madhubani as suspended officer…………… Petitioner Versus 1.THE UTTAR BIHAR GRAMIN BANK through its Chairman, Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Head Office, Kalambagh Chowk, Muzaffarpur, Bihar. 2.The Chairman, Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Head Office, Kalambagh Chowk, Muzaffarpur, Bihar. 3.The Senior Manager, PRS Department, uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Head Office, Kalambagh Chowk, Muzaffarpur. 4.The Regional Manager, Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Regional Office, Madhubani. 5.Sri R.K. Arora, the Disciplinary Authsority, Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Head Office, Kalambagh Chowk, Muzaffarpur, Bihar……… Respondents. ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Jai Prakash Verma, Advocate For Respondent Bank: None. -------------- 2. 1.4.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. No one appears for the respondent Bank. The petitioner has approached this Court for quashing the order of suspension dated 20.10.2009 as also the departmental proceedings initiated by order dated 18.1.2011. The only ground urged by learned counsel for the petitioner is that the charge memo has been issued after nearly 15 months of the petitioner being placed under suspension. While it is to be deprecated that an officer of the Bank shall be kept under suspension for nearly 15 months without initiating any departmental proceedings or issuing charge memo to - 2 - him, the same cannot be a ground for either setting aside the order of suspension or quashing the departmental proceedings. The writ application is, accordingly, dismissed. However, the authorities of the respondent Bank are directed to proceed expeditiously in the matter of departmental proceedings and conclude the same, preferably within a period of four months from today. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J. )