JUDGMENT :- Leave granted.

2. The only question that arises for consideration in this appeal is whether the learned single Judge of Allahabad High Court was justified in coming to the conclusion that there has been a violation of the principle of natural justice, in course of the departmental proceeding, and on that score was justified in interfering with an order of termination of service by the departmental authority. It transpires that the respondent, a conductor under the U.P. State Road Transport Corporation faced a departmental proceeding on a set of charges, and in course of enquiry, several witnesses were examained in support of the allegations of charges that delinquent was to meet. On the basis of the evidence, the departmental authority came to the conclusion that the charges have been established, and as such inflicted the punishment of termination. The delinquent respondent assailed the legality of the said order of punishment by filing a writ petition in Allahabad High Court. The High Court came to the conclusion that the names of the witnesses, who had been examined on a particular date, were really not the witnesses for that date, though their names had been given to