E. Rajan Ravichandran v. Agricultural Production Commissioner & Principal Secretary to Government, Agriculture Department, Secretariat, Chennai
2015-01-29
K.RAVICHANDRA BAABU
body2015
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Judgment 1. Mr.V.Pandy, learned Government Advocate takes notice for the respondents and by consent of both the parties, the main writ petition itself is taken up for final disposal at the stage of admission. 2. Heard the learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Government Advocate appearing for the respondents. 3. In this writ petition, the petitioner is seeking for a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to dispose of the disciplinary proceedings pending in DCS1/17144/12 of the Director of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, Chennai which is pending from the year 2012, before the petitioner's date of superannuation. 4. The petitioner is serving as Personal Assistant (Agriculture) to the District Collector, Tirunelveli District. He was issued with a charge memo on 26.09.2012. He gave his explanation and thereafter, an enquiry was conducted and the Enquiry Officer has also completed the enquiry on 22.08.2014. Thereafter, the disciplinary proceedings has not progressed further. In the mean time, the petitioner is going to retire on attaining the age of superannuation on 31.03.2015. Therefore, the present writ petition is filed seeking for the relief as stated supra. 5. Considering the fact, that the charge memo has issued against the petitioner on 26.09.2012, and that the enquiry was also completed on 22.08.2014, it is for the first respondent to complete the disciplinary proceedings and pass final orders on the same without any loss of further time as it is stated that the petitioner is going to retire on 31.03.2015. Hence, without expressing any view on the merits and the contentions raised in the writ petition and the charges levelled against him, this writ petition is disposed of only with a direction to the first respondent to complete the disciplinary proceedings and pass final orders on the same and in accordance with law within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs.