JUDGMENT

PATTANAIK, J. - Leave granted.

2. Though this appeal is directed against the order of the Administrative Tribunal, Bombay dated 24-3-1994, wherein the legality of the government order transferring the appellant from one place to the other within Bombay and the consequential direction to vacate the quarters is under challenge, on going through the materials on record this Court on being satisfied that a straightforward police officer was being harassed by his superior officers at the behest of the proprietor of a hotel and bar issued notice to the Senior Inspectors Shri Tike and Shri Raghuvanshi, as well as to the Deputy Commissioner of Police Shri K. Ramachandran to file their show-cause as to why appropriate strictures should not be made against them. The Court had also issued notice to the State of Maharashtra to indicate why government action of imposing penalty and punishment on the appellant should not be considered to be illegal.

3. The appellants case in a nutshell is that as a Police Inspect he was attached to Kurla Police Station in 1976 and had been allotted quarters in Kurla West in Block No. 2 in the year 1979. Between 1979 to 1990 though the appellant had been