Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:19372 Court No. - 18 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 64 of 2025 Petitioner :- Apoorva Patel Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Personnel, Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ajeet Pratap Singh,Abhishek Singh,Kushagra Dikshit Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Karunesh Singh Pawar,J. Learned counsel for the parties have brought notice of the court judgment and order dated 10.3.2025 passed by a Division Bench of this Court in Special Appeal (D) No.110 of 2025 State of U.P. and others versus Apoorva Patel wherein the special appeal as well as the present writ petition has been disposed of and enquiry has been expedited in a time bound manner, say within four months from the date of the order. The order passed by the Division Bench is extracted below : " 1. Heard learned counsel for the appellant and Shri J.N. Mathur, learned Senior counsel who has put in appearance on behalf of the sole respondent. 2. There is a delay of 14 days in filing the special appeal, however, since there is no objection and the cause shown appears to be sufficient, the delay in filing the appeal is condoned and the application for condonation of delay is allowed. 3. The intra-court appeal is directed against the interlocutory order dated 20.1.2025 passed by the writ court in Writ-A No. 64 of 2025. The writ petition had arisen out of an order of suspension passed in contemplation of inquiry. 4. Since the charge-sheet was already issued to the respondent, the writ court having regard to the nature of allegations levelled, has left the inquiry open and stayed the order of suspension in the meantime. 5. At this stage learned counsel for the appellant has stated that the observations made by the writ court in the impugned order dated 20.1.2025 are likely to affect the course of fair inquiry. 6. It is however not disputed that the State is under obligation to conclude the disciplinary proceedings at the earliest. 7. In the facts and circumstances of the case while confirming the interim order passed by the writ court, we further provide that the State shall conclude the disciplinary proceedings within a period of four months from the date of service of this order which in any case shall be communicated by learned Chief Standing Counsel within a week from today. 8. The documents asked for by the delinquent officer, if any, shall be provided to him within a period of two weeks from today and the delinquent officer on obtaining copies of the documents, shall submit his explanation within a further period of 15 days thereafter. 9. The inquiry officer shall thereafter proceed with the inquiry by fixing date, time and place of which due information shall be given to the respondent. 10. The inquiry proceedings shall accordingly be concluded within a period of three months from the date of the submission of the reply and in any case not later than a period of four months from today. The order of stay of suspension shall remain operative subject to the outcome of the proceedings. 11. The intra-court appeal as well as the writ petition shall stand disposed of in terms of this order. 12. It is made clear that the respondent undertakes to participate in the inquiry proceeding and shall not evade his presence on the dates fixed by the enquiry officer. The State also undertakes to pay salary to the respondent without fail." Learned counsel for the parties agree that this petition may be disposed of in terms of order extracted above. In view of the above, the petition stands disposed of in terms of order dated 10.3.2025 (supra). Order Date :- 7.4.2025 kkb/ Digitally signed by :- KRISHNA KUMAR BARANWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench