PATNA, India, July 2 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on June 30:

Heard Mr. Dhananjay Mishra, learned Advocate for the petitioner and Mr. Kunal Tiwary, learned Advocate for the North Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd.

2. The challenge in the present writ petition is made to an order no. 472 dated 14.05.2010 by which the pension of the erstwhile employee (original petitioner) came to be reduced by 25%, with a further direction that the petitioner shall not be entitled to any benefit, except subsistence allowance during the period of suspension.

3. Before parting with the case it would be pertinent to note that during the pendency of the writ petition, the sole petitioner died on 30.07.2022; subsequently an interlocutor...