PATNA, India, July 2 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on June 30:
The challenge in the present writ petition is made to an order dated 31.07.2007 passed in Departmental proceeding no. 53 of 2006 whereby the petitioner has been inflicted with the punishment of withholding of one increment for a year.
2. During the pendency of the writ petition, the petitioner came to know under the Right to Information Act that his appeal preferred against the original order also came to be rejected vide order as contained in Memo no. 967 dated 06.01.2009, in Appeal No. 53 of 2006.
3. It is the specific contention of the petitioner that the order passed by the Appellate Authority has never been served upon him, hence the same has been cha...