IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.19059 of 2010 Date of Decision : October 25, 2010. Gurdev Kaur .....Petitioner versus The Hoshiarpur Central Cooperative Bank Ltd. and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Rajesh K.Dadwal, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks stay/quashing of the disciplinary proceedings initiated against her by the respondent-bank on the plea that it will cause prejudice to the criminal proceedings arising out of the FIR No.146 dated 29.12.2008 under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station City, Hoshiarpur. The above stated FIR has been got registered by the petitioner in her capacity as Manager of the Railway Road Branch of the respondent- bank. As per the allegations, the accused-persons have fraudulently withdrawn an amount of Rs.2 crores from the bank by producing forged demand drafts. C.W.P.No .19059 of 2010 2 The investigation in the afore-stated FIR is still going on and no charge-sheet against the suspects has been submitted so far. The petitioner, who is already under suspension, has been served with the impugned charge-sheet dated 16.3.2009 (Annexure P-3), inter-alia, alleging sheer negligence in performance of duties by her. In my considered view, the departmental action alleging the `administrative inefficiency' or `negligence' in performance of duties as a Branch Manager of the bank, has no direct nexus with the allegations contained in the FIR against the suspects. Both the proceedings can proceed simultaneously. No case to interfere with the departmental proceeding by this Court in exercise of its writ jurisdiction is made out. Dismissed. However, this order shall not preclude the petitioner to take her pleas before the Inquiry Officer and/or any other forum, in accordance with law. October 25, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE