IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL WRIT PETITION NO.1492 (SS) OF 2004 Sri Umed Singh Bisht, Aged about 51 years, S/o Sri Narayan Singh Bisht, Presently posted as Pension Clerk, Cantonment Board, Ranikhet, District-Almora. ..................Petitioner. Versus 1. Union of India, through its Secretary Ministry of Defence, New Delhi. 2. Chairman Cantonment Board, Ranikhet, District- Almora. 3. Executive Officer, Cantonment Board, Ranikhet, District-Almora. 4. G.O.C.-in-Chief, Head Quarters, Central Command, Lucknow-2. 5. G. Vijay Bhaskar, Earlier Executive Officer, Ranikhet. Presently posted in Cantonment Board, Welington, Tamilnadu. 6. Dalip Singh Bisht, Junior Engineer, Cantonment Board, Ranikhet, Almora. ............Respondents. Dated: 22.03.2006 Hon’ble Rajesh Tandon, J. Heard Sri I.D. Paliwal, Advocate for the petitioner and none for the respondents no. 2 to 6, Sri Vikas Pandey is present on behalf of respondent no.1 2 By the present writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a writ of certiorari quashing the order dated 31.03.2004 passed by the Executive Office, Cantonment Board, Ranikhet by stopping the two increments of the petitioner. Briefly stated, the petitioner is posted as a Pension Clerk in the Cantonment Board, Ranikhet, District-Almora. He was suspended on 06.09.2003, thereafter, the charge-sheet was given to the petitioner. However, on 31.03.2004, the petitioner was reinstated with minor punishment by stopping two increments. Petitioner has submitted that in spite of approaching the authority by way of written application, the document on which the inquiry has been proceeded has not been supplied to the petitioner. He has also preferred an appeal on 31.03.2004 and also a departmental appeal on 26.04.2004, but the same has not been decided. In view of the above, the Chairman Cantonment Board is directed to dispose of the appeal within a period of one month from the date of presentation of the certified copy of this order. However, the respondents no. 3 Executive Officer Cantonment Board shall release all the payments which are due to the petitioner within a period of one month from the date of presentation of the certified copy of the order. Writ petition partly succeeds and is allowed. (Rajesh Tandon, J.) 22.03.2006 Rathour