LAW FOR ALL

where the charge in both the proceedings is the same and Delinquent Officer is exonerated therefrom in the departmental proceeding which concludes earlier in point of time, that the criminal prosecution on the same set of facts and circumstances ought not to be allowed to continue more particularly in view of the prescription of higher standard of proof in criminal cases. However, exoneration in the departmental proceeding on a technical ground would not be a bar for the criminal prosecution to continue.