Pradeep Kumar Verma v. U.P. State Warehousing Corporation Lucknow Thru Its Managing Director and 4 Others

Court No. - 7 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8701 of 2023 Petitioner :- Pradeep Kumar Verma Respondent :- U.P. State Warehousing Corporation Lucknow Thru Its Managing Director And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Parmanand Sharma,Ajay Kumar Shahi Counsel for Respondent :- Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary,Anurag Verma Hon'ble Abdul Moin,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Avdhesh Shukla, learned counsel, files Vakalatnama on behalf of respondents no.1, 2, 4 and 5, which is taken on record, and Sri Anurag Verma, learned counsel for respondent no.3.

¶2Learned counsel for the petitioner after arguing at some length confines his prayer to the inquiry proceedings having been initiated against the petitioner vide charge sheet dated

07.08.2023 to be finalized within a specified time.

¶3To the said prayer, learned counsels for the respondents have no objection.

¶4Accordingly, considering that charge sheet dated 07.08.2023 has already been issued to the petitioner and subsequent thereto the petitioner through the application dated 14.09.2023 has demanded certain documents to which Sri Avdhesh Shukla, learned counsel appearing for the respondents, states that whatever documents are found essential for being given would be supplied to the petitioner within two weeks from today and for rest of the documents in case they are not found essential for the inquiry would not be supplied and the reasons thereof would be indicated to the petitioner and disciplinary proceedings would be finalized within the time specified by the Court, present petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to finalize the disciplinary proceedings after supply of the documents to the petitioner as indicated above within two weeks from today. The inquiry proceedings shall thereafter be finalized within a further period of two months in accordance with law after giving due opportunity of hearing to the petitioner.

¶5Needless to mention that the petitioner shall cooperate with the inquiry proceedings. In case the petitioner does not cooperate, the Inquiry Officer would be at liberty to inform the petitioner in writing about his non-cooperation and the period of non-cooperation would be excluded from the aforesaid period.

¶6It is also provided that in case the disciplinary proceedings are not concluded and a final order is not passed within aforesaid period then the impugned suspension order dated

20.06.2023, a copy of which is Annexure-1 to the writ petition, shall stand revoked automatically without prejudice to the respondents of continuing with the inquiry proceedings. Order Date :- 7.11.2023 A. Katiyar High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench