IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.12718 of 2010 Date of Decision : July 21, 2010. S.M.Sharma .....Petitioner versus Punjab National Bank and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Anil Chawla, 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 was in the service of the respondent-Punjab National Bank as a Senior Manager. As a result of the disciplinary action against him, the petitioner was dismissed from service vide order dated 30.12.2006 (Annexure P-8) against which his appeal was also turned down by the Appellate Authority on 27.6.2007 (Annexure P-9), followed by rejection of the Review Application on 9.4.2008 (Annexure P-10). The petitioner impugned the afore-mentioned orders before this Court in Civil Writ Petition No.16606 of 2008 (S.M.Sharma versus Punjab National Bank) which was allowed in part by a Coordinate Bench vide order dated 8.3.2010, to the extent that the claim of the petitioner was prima-facie found to be similar to Sh.A.K.Verma in whose case the order of `removal' C.W.P.No .12718 of 2010 2 was set-aside and the punishment was reduced to `compulsory retirement'. This Court accordingly directed the Disciplinary Authority to re-consider the matter and take a decision objectively “in the light of the contentions made and in the light of seemingly congruous charges imputed against the petitioner and Sh.A.K.Verma......” The Disciplinary Authority has now passed the impugned order dated 8.5.2010 (Annexure P-1) reiterating the petitioner's dismissal from service. Aggrieved, the petitioner has preferred this writ petition. In my considered view, the petitioner has got an effective alternative remedy of departmental appeal against the impugned order, especially when in the case of Sh.A.K.Verma also it was the Appellate Authority who vide order dated 23.5.2007 (Annexure P-12) intervened and modified the penalty of removal from service to compulsory retirement. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of at this stage with liberty to the petitioner to prefer the departmental appeal within a period of one month. It is directed that in case the petitioner prefers the appeal, as permitted above, the Appellate Authority shall decide the same on merits within a period of three months, and keeping in view the observations made by this Court vide order dated 8.3.2010 passed in Civil Writ Petition No.16606 of 2008 (S.M.Sharma versus Punjab National Bank). Dasti. July 21, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE