Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:144678 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 58128 of 2009 1. Petitioner :- Bhudev Singh Respondent :- Shreyash Gramin Bank Sponsored By Canara Bank And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajiv Sharma Counsel for Respondent :- Amrish Sahai,A.C.Tripathi,Amrish Sahai,Avinash Tripathi,S.N.Verma 2. Case :- WRIT - A No. - 49177 of 2007 Petitioner :- Bhudev Singh Respondent :- Shreyash Gramin Bank Spons.By Canara Bank And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajiv Sharma Counsel for Respondent :- S.C.,Amrish Sahai,Ashok Srivastava,Y.Verma Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J. 1.Heard Sri Rajiv Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Amrish Sahai, learned counsel for the respondents. 2. Above two writ petitions were filed with a direction not to commence disciplinary proceedings since on the same set of allegations, criminal trial was pending against the petitioner. 3. This Court has granted an interim order that till written statement is filed by the petitioner in criminal proceedings, departmental proceedings may not commence and this writ petition is pending for the last 16 years. , 4. Learned counsel for the parties have no knowledge about status of of trial if any. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioner is not able to convince this Court that nature of interim order can be justified since there is no provision of filing a Written Statement by an accused in the criminal proceedings. Otherwise also, it would not be justified to wait for indefinite period for conclusion of criminal proceedings in order to commence departmental proceedings. (See Captain M.Paul Anthony Vs. Bharat Gold Mines Ltd & Anr (1999) 3SCC 679. 6. In the aforesaid circumstances, interim orders are vacated. 7. Both the writ petitions are disposed of with liberty to respondents to commence departmental proceedings if so advised, after ascertaining status of the trial. Order Date :- 22.8.2025 SB Digitally signed by :- SANDEEP BHATTACHARYA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad