IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.2255 of 2009 Ram Yatan Prasad, son of Sri Budhan Prasad, resident of village- Tekuna, Police Station- Bodh Gaya, District Gaya ....Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna 2. Mr. Amir Subhani, Secretary Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Old Secretariat, Patna 3. Mr. Rajvansh Mani Singh, Joint Secretary Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Old Secretariat, Patna 4. Mr. Surendra Mohan Sinha, Deputy Secretary Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Old Secretariat, Patna 5. Mr. Vijay Prakash, Principal Secretary-cum- Commissioner, Rural Development Department, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna ...Opposite Parties ----------- 3 03-09-2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. From the show cause filed on behalf of the State, it appears that disciplinary proceeding remanded against the petitioner in respect of which this court had passed earlier an order and granted liberty to proceed in accordance with law has been concluded leading to an order against the petitioner under the Bihar Pension Rules. The submission advanced on behalf of the petitioner is that the authorities have not acted in accordance with law and the final order is, therefore, illegal. 2 No doubt the authorities have caused delay in concluding the proceeding and taken beyond nine months time which was granted by the Division Bench, but for that only we do not want to punish the opposite parties. So far as alleged illegality or irregularity is concerned, we do not deem it proper to go into the relevant issues in exercise of contempt jurisdiction. This contempt application is finally disposed of. It goes without saying that petitioner will have the liberty to challenge any illegal order/decision on all permissible grounds through appropriate proceeding in accordance with law. BKS/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, J.)