WRIT - A No. 5803 of 2020 at Allahabad

AFR Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:116195 Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 5803 of 2020 Petitioner :- Basant Lal Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ram Pyare,Sanjeev Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J. 1. Heard Sri Madhvendra Singh, learned Advocate holding brief of Sri Ram Pyare, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitoiner has assailed the order dated 21.01.2020 whereby his claim for payment of salary for the period running from 22.08.2009 till 19.01.2019, the period during which the petitioner continued to be under suspension on account of pending criminal case, has been rejected. 3. Challenging the order impugned here in this petition learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner was placed under suspension on 22.08.2009 upon his conviction in Crime No.135 of 2002 under Sections 363, 366, 342, 368, 376, 394 IPC, vide Session Trial No.372 of 2002 and sending him to jail to serve out sentence vide order dated 30.07.2009. It is submitted that upon a criminal appeal be