IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.159 of 2008 RAJENDRA CHOUDHARY . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . ----------- 2. 12.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order dated 8.2.2006 at Annexure-10 by which he has been reverted after 17 years and orders for recovery of salary have been passed. Even if the contention on behalf of the State that the petitioner was also an associate at the process of decision making be accepted, the impugned order dated 8.2.2006 is completely non-speaking in nature and hinders judicial review. The order does not reflect what objections were raised by the petitioner during his discussion with the respondents and in what manner the respondents considered his objection, why they did not find merits in his objections to reject the same by a reasoned and speaking order showing considering of all of the above. Reasons have been held to be the heart and soul of an order. Reasons are a facet of natural justice. Reasons control arbitrariness. Reasons give satisfaction to the citizen that he has been given a fair deal but he was unfortunate that the law was not in his favour. These principles of administrative law are not new but several decades old. If notwithstanding repeated 2 pronouncements of the Court, the respondents insist on passing non-speaking orders and making the useful refrain before the Court that they will file a counter affidavit and explain why they have passed the order when the Courts have equally held that the order of an authority is to be tested on the recitals contained therein and cannot be explained in the counter affidavit, thereby generating and multiplying the burden of litigations before this Court, this Court has option but to set aside such orders. The order suffers from serious illegality in the decision making process. The impugned order dated 8.2.2006 and the consequential orders dated 30.10.2007 and 12.11.2007 is accordingly set aside. The writ application stands allowed. P. Kumar (Navin Sinha, J.)