[1] SBCWP 1112/2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH, JAIPUR O R D E R S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 1112/2009 SURJEET SINGH Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN & ORS. Date: 02.02.2009. HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.S. RATHORE Mr. Rambabu Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. **** The petitioner was appointed as Class-IV employee on compassionate ground in the office of District Collector, Alwar vide order dated 11.05.1992. The respondent No.3- Tehsildar, Laxmangarh, District Alwar issued a memorandum of charges to the petitioner alleging therein that the petitioner remained willfully absent from duty on various occasions. After conducting enquiry, the Disciplinary Authority i.e. Tehsildar, Laxmangarh found proved all the charges against the petitioner of remaining willfully absent from duties from time to time and terminated the petitioner from service vide order impugned dated 16.01.1997. The aforesaid impugned termination order dated 16.01.1997 has been challenged by the petitioner in this writ petition on the ground that the Collector is the appointing authority of the petitioner and he was the only competent to issue charge-sheet and punish the petitioner, whereas in the instant case charge-sheet has been issued by the [2] SBCWP 1112/2009 Tehsildar and dismissal order is also passed by the Tehsildar, Laxmangarh, who is not competent authority. It is also contended that the entire enquiry proceeded ex parte without considering the evidence adduced by the petitioner in his defence. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and carefully gone through the averments made in the writ petition as well as the material and documents annexed therewith. The petitioner neither able to explain as to why he has challenged the impugned termination order dated 16.01.1997 after an inordinate delay of more than a decade nor any explanation for this delay has been given in the writ petition. Even otherwise also, the petitioner has got alternative efficacious remedy to challenge the impugned termination order, but in any case, at this belated stage, this Court do not find any merit in the writ petition. Consequently, the writ petition fails being devoid of merit and the same is hereby dismissed. (K.S. RATHORE),J. /KKC/