RAM VYAS MISHRA Vs. JHARKHAND STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD counsel for the parties and with their consent, this writ petition is being disposed of at stage.

(2.) ON 18 -12 -1998 while the petitioner was posted as Assistant Electrical Engineer (System Operation), South Chotanagpur Area Electricity Board, he was served with the letter of the same date (Annexure 2) wherein he was asked to show cause as to why appropriate departmental action be not initiated against him if he was unable to satisfactorily explain the charge that was levelled against him. Upon perusal of Annexure 2, the charge appears to be in relation to non -furnishing of a report to the department of revenue of the Board relating to electrical connection given to a consumer, namely, Laxman Mahto being SBR Connection (Domestic) No. 193. This connection is said to have been given on 13 -10 -1986.

(3.) THE reply to Paragraph 8(iii) is to be found in Paragraph 15 which reads as follows