( 1 ) ON an earlier occasion, a Division Bench of this Court by its judgment and order dated 17-2-1999 had partly allowed the Writ petition and remanded the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the petitioner, to the disciplinary authority with a direction to dispose of the proceedings afresh after giving opportunity of being heard to the writ petitioner on the ground that the enquiry against the petitioner- delinquent was conducted without notice to the petitioner. In Civil Appeal no. 3186/2000 preferred against the said judgment of the Division Bench by the respondent-Union, the Supreme Court found that the allegation that the enquiry was conducted without notice to the petitioner is factually incorrect. The supreme Court also found that though the 1st respondent has taken a plea that the writ Petition is not maintainable against it, this Court did not deal with that question. In that view of the matter, the order of the division Bench was set aside by the supreme Court and proceedings are remanded to this Court to dispose of the same after dealing with all the contentions raised by both the delinquent as well as the employer. That is how this Writ Petition