ORDER

After having heard and considered the arguments urged on behalf of the parties we are of the view, for reasons which we shall set out later on, that all the three appeals fail and should be dismissed. Order accordingly. The appellant will pay to the respondents the costs of these appeals. Such costs to be one set of costs.

Judgment

Shelat, J. On August 14, 1970 we pronounced our order dismissing these three appeals with costs stating at the time that our reasons for the same would follow. The order was pronounced at the request of the appellant who desired that we should do so before August 15, 1970 when he was completing 58 years of his age. Accordingly we are now setting out the reasons for the said order.

The three appeals, by certificate, question the validity of two confidential reports for the years 1964 and 1965 made against the appellant by the reporting and the reviewing officers in the Central Water and Power Commission (Power Wing) and the order dated May 12, 1967 by which the appellant was compulsorily retired on his attaining the age of 55 years.

The appellant, an electrical engineer, began his career in the Simla Electricity Supply Undertaking and worked there from