ORDER

Defendant University is in appeal against the judgment of the learned Single Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissing the defendant s second appeal RSA No. 564/1998. The plaintiff had been appointed as a Clerk in the University way back in July 1976. On dereliction of duties, a set of charges were levelled against him on 24th March, 1992, and on receipt of the reply of the delinquent plaintiff, the University not having been satisfied, appointed an enquiring officer to enquire into the set of charges. The said enquiring officer gave his report on 17-9-1992 exonerating the plaintiff delinquent from the charges levelled against him. This report was placed before the Vice-Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor appears to have directed that the matter should be enquired into afresh and fresh enquiring officer should be appointed. It appears that the Registrar was the appointing/punishing authority but since the Registrar was on leave, the matter had been placed before the higher authority, namely, the Vice-Chancellor. On the basis of the said order of the Vice-Chancellor, another enquiring officer was appointed, who also submitted a report and relying upon the said second rep