JUDGMENT

S.B. Sinha, J.-The Border Security Force (BSF) has a Training Centre and School (TCS) in the District of Hazaribagh. The said training centre is one of the units of the BSF. It has several wings, namely, Admn. Wing, BTC (Basic Training Centre), STS (Specialist Training School) and STC (Subsidiary Training Centre), etc. All the wings of TCS are said to be located in the same premises.

2. The respondent herein was a Deputy Commandant in the TCS. The Unit Commandant of TCS happened to be one Mr. B.S. Garcha. In or about July, 1990 the respondent was accused of having received gratification from two persons, namely, B.K. Jha and Santosh Kumar Jha for procuring their recruitment as constables in the BSF which was discovered in the following circumstances.

3. On 17.7.1990 a sum of Rs. 1700/- was said to have been stolen from the said B.K. Jha. Allegedly, he gave out that the respondent had accepted a sum of Rs. 5,000/- for his recruitment. On 16.7.1990 one Mr. Raj Singh, Deputy Commandant reported to the Commandant, Mr. J.S. Bakshi that the said B.K. Jha had stated in presence of one Mr. G.S. Rana that he had brought out a sum of Rs. 8,500/- from his house out of which he was, as p