JUDGMENT

Brijesh Kumar, J.-Leave granted.

2. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order passed by a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissing the writ petition preferred by the appellant challenging the order passed by the State of Uttar Pradesh purportedly in exercise of its revisional power under Rule 13 of U.P. Government Servants (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the U.P. Rules of 1999 ) setting aside the order passed by the Chairman of the U.P. State Agro Industrial Corporation (for short the Corporation ) and restoring the order passed by the Managing Director imposing penalty of dismissal against the appellant.

3. The Corporation is a Company incorporated under the Companies Act. It is a Government company. The appellant has been working as a Service Engineer in the said Corporation at Hapur. It is the case of the Corporation that the appellant had committed serious financial irregularities which came to the light of the Corporation and in respect thereof the Managing Director of the Corporation instituted a departmental enquiry some time in October, 1997. The charges were found proved and ultimately the Managing Director pa