Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:43160 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8076 of 2025 Petitioner :- Mithilesh Kumari Respondent :- Secy. U.P. Basic Education Board Allahabad And 7 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Nitin Kumar Mishra,Deepak Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- Ran Vijay Singh,C.S.C.,Prashant Kumar Singh,Savitra Vardhan Singh Hon'ble Abdul Moin,J. 1. Heard Shri Manish Mani Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner, who files his vakalatnama on behalf of the petitioner, Shri Ran Vijay Singh, learned counsel appearing for respondent No.1, Shri Prashant Kumar Singh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents No.3, 4 and 6, Shri Savitra Vardhan Singh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents No.8 and learned standing Counsel for respondents-State No.2 and 5. No notice is being issued to the respondent No.6 taking into consideration the nature of order proposed to be passed. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that subsequent to the impugned suspension order dated 05.06.2025, a copy of which is Annexure-1 to the petition, the petitioner has been issued a charge- sheet on 24.06.2025 to which a reply has been submitted on 14.07.2025. It is prayed that departmental inquiry may be directed to be finalized against the petitioner within a specified time. 3. To the aforesaid prayer, learned counsels appearing on behalf of the respondents have no objection. 4. Accordingly, taking into consideration the aforesaid fact that the reply to the charge-sheet has been submitted by the petitioner on 14.07.2025, it is provided that the respondents shall finalize the disciplinary proceedings against the petitioner and the disciplinary authority shall proceed to pass a final order within a further period of eight weeks. 5. Needless to mention that the petitioner shall cooperate with the inquiry proceedings and he shall also be given due opportunity of hearing in the said inquiry proceedings. 6. In case the petitioner does not cooperate in the inquiry proceedings, the Inquiry Officer would be at liberty to inform the petitioner in writing about his non-cooperation and the period of non-cooperation would be excluded from the aforesaid period. 7. Disposed of. Order Date :- 28.7.2025/prateek Digitally signed by :- PRATEEK ARORA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench