Judgment

GAJENDRAGADKAR, J.:

These two appeals raise a short question about the validity of the writ of certiorari which has been ordered to be issued by the Division Bench of the Madras High Court in allowing a Letters Patent Appeal preferred before it by the respondent M/ s. Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Madras. The appellant T. Prem Sagar was appointed by the respondent as its Road Engineer at Madras on February 5, 1951. In January, 1952 he was promoted as Operations Assistant on a salary of Rs. 450/ - p.m., and as such, he was placed on probation for a period of six months. At the end of six months, the respondent declared that he had completed his probation satisfactorily. In October, 1957, as a result of some misunderstanding between him and the respondent, he was again placed on probation from October 1, 1957 for a period of six months in the same post of Operations Assistant. At the end of this period, the appellant received a letter from the Operations Manager of the respondent informing him that he had done his work as a probationer satisfactorily. Even so, it was alleged that he did not show capacity for growth with the organisation and on that account, he was offered the