IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2421 of 2006 ARUN KUMAR ADHIKARI Versus THE UNION OF INDIA & ORS ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Sajid Salim Khan For the Union of India: Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh -------- 03. 31.07.2008 Petitioner has been dismissed from service by the respondents after rendering almost 16 years in service. The order of dismissal has been affirmed right till the revisional stage. In the normal circumstances the Court may have considered directing the respondents to have a re-look at the quantum of punishment imposed upon the petitioner if the present aberration was first of its kind. In the counter affidavit it has been categorically stated that a lenient view of such over-stay without authority in the past on more than one occasion has probably emboldened the petitioner to indulge to such adventurism. That is one of the considerations why the Court’s indulgence is not being extended in this case. It is yet another issue that there are concurrent findings both by the appellate and revisional authority in the matter that the petitioner has not succeeded in explaining his absence of 133 days which was without authority and law. The writ application is dismissed. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)