PATNA, India, Oct. 24 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Sept. 25:
Heard the parties.
2. The challenge in the present writ petition is made to the letter as contained in Memo No. 2820/C Bhagalpur dated 24.09.2024 issued under the signature of Incharge Officer, District Confidential Branch, Bhagalpur whereby and whereunder District Programme Officer (Establishment) Education Department, Bhagalpur has been directed to initiate action against the petitioner based upon the report of the Additional Collector (Disaster Management), Bhagalpur who found the employment of the petitioner as forged.
3. During the pendency of the writ petition the petitioner has also been served with a show cause notice contained in Memo No. 46 dated 23.10.2024 and the resultant consequential letter as contained in memo no. 69 dated 31.07.2025 issued under the joint signature of the Mukhiya and the Panchayat Secretary, Gram Panchayat Raj, Agarpur, Goradih whereby and whereunder the services of the petitioner has been terminated with effect from 31.07.2025. The aforenoted letters have also been put to challenge by filing interlocutory application no. 1 and 2 of 2025.
4. The facts are admitted to the extent that the petitioner was duly appointed as a Panchayat Teacher long back in the year 2014, in pursuant to the direction of the District Appellate Authority under Memo No. 31 dated 12.12.2014. Since then the petitioner has been discharging his duties, in the mean time, on a complaint made by a person whose identity has not even been verified, the petitioner was proceeded and put under suspension in the year 2019, but later on, vide Memo No. 2527 dated 21.09.2019 issued under the signature of District Programme Officer (Establishment), Bhagalpur his suspension was revoked and charges were dropped.
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