JUDGMENT

DESAI, J.:— Appellant Rajinder Kumar Kindra was inducted as a peon by M/s Raymond Woollen Mills Ltd. (employer for short). In 1972 he was promoted as a salesman and at the relevant time he was serving at the Raymonds retail showroom in Karol Bagh, New Delhi. One Shri R. S. Negi was the Manager-cum-Cashier of the Karol Bagh Show-room of the employer under whom the appellant was working. He was served with a charge-sheet dated December 11, 1975 which reads as under :

"That you, Shri Rajinder Kindra, is hereby informed that you, while working as a salesman at Raymonds Retail Showroom, 2397/1, Hardhian Singh Road, New Delhi-5 have misappropriated cash and funds from the amounts of Raymonds Woollen Mills Ltd., to the extent of Rs. 32,196/88 or a part thereof during the period 10-6-75 to 17-10-75 by manipulating false accounts, submitted bogus cheques into the Mills Account or by taking cash from the chest of the Retail Depot along with Shri R. S. Negi, Manager-cum-Cashier of Raymonds Retail Show-room, 2397/1, Hardhian Singh Road, Karol Bagh, New Delhi.

That you Shri Rajinder Kumar Kindra while acting as a salesman aided, abetted, connived and conspired with the Manager-cum-Cashie