As per the case facts, a clerk working for the State Transport Department was suspended following a criminal case involving embezzlement allegations. While suspended, another incident led to him being ... convicted under certain sections of the Indian Penal Code by a trial court. He filed an appeal against this conviction, and later received a show cause notice regarding his continued suspension and deemed termination. The appeal to the Supreme Court addresses the High Court's judgment concerning his service termination and salary for the period he was out of service. The question arose regarding the treatment of the period during which the appellant was suspended and kept out of service, and his entitlement to salary for that period following his conviction and subsequent appeals. Finally, the Supreme Court set aside the impugned judgment and modified the previous judgment that directed payment of salary to the appellant for the period he was kept out of service. Instead, it decreed that the second respondent should consider how the period until the appellant's reinstatement is to be treated and the consequential effects, with this exercise to be completed within a specified time frame.