WRIT - A No. 9166 of 2024 at Allahabad

1 Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:5791 Court No. - 49 Reserved A.F.R. Case :- WRIT - A No. - 9166 of 2024 Petitioner :- Gopal Singh Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Dinesh Mishra,Prabhakar Awasthi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble J.J. Munir,J. 1. This writ petition is directed against an order passed by the State Government dated 24.05.2024, inflicting the petitioner with the penalty of censure after a show cause notice for an act of service misconduct. 2. The petitioner entered service of the Department of Irrigation and Water Resources as an Assistant Engineer way back on 10.02.1991. He was promoted to the post of an Executive Engineer on 19.04.2000 and then as a Superintending Engineer on 20.01.2009. Still later, on 01.06.2018, he was promoted as a Chief Engineer, Level-II. He got a further promotion to the position of Chief Engineer, Level-I on 30.06.2022. As appears from the record, one Chhatrapati Singh, Executive Engineer, Research and Planning Division-I, Sinchai Bhawan Annexe, Lucknow was directed to be given additional charge of the Executive Engineer, Irrigation Construction Division-II, Lalitpur by an order of the Engineer-in- Ch