IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2055 of 2008 UDIT NARAYAN MALLIK . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . For the Petitioner : Manoj Kumar Manoj, Adv. For the State : S.C. 12. For Accountant General: Sanjay Kumar. ----------- 2/ 19/02/2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State as also for the Accountant General. The petitioner is stated to have been appointed in the work charged establishment on 28.10.1967. He was then promoted as a Junior Mechanic Grade-II and brought into the regular establishment by an order dated 28.9.1981. He was due for retirement on 31.10.2003 from the post of Junior Mechanic Grade-II. Two months prior he was given a show cause questioning his promotion to Junior Mechanic Grade-II to which he replied where he also stated that he was not the only beneficiary, but that several others similarly situated and even junior to him have been granted such promotion. The impugned order came to be passed days prior to his superannuation rejecting the cause shown by him. The impugned order dated 1.10.2003 is completely non-speaking in nature and does not deal with the 2 issues raised by the petitioner in his cause shown to justify promotion and regularization given to him while depriving him of the benefit of the same and reverting him to Grade-IV post with effect from 1977. Learned counsel for the State very fairly acknowledges that the belated nature of the reversion is an aspect fully covered by a judgement of this Court in C.W.J.C. No.13390/04 disposed on 31.8.2005 observing that to pass such orders of reversion at a belated stage when the Government servant was on the verge of retirement, was against equity. For the very same reason, and additionally that the impugned order be completely non-speaking in nature, the impugned orders dated 1.10.2003, 29.3.2003 and 26.8.2003 are accordingly set aside. The writ application stands allowed in similar terms. KC/ ( Navin Sinha, J.)