VENKATESAM, J.

( 1 ) THIS Appeal is preferred by the State of Andhra Pradesh (defendant) against the decree and judgment of the II Additional Chief Judge, City Civil court, Hyderabad, in O. S. No. 7 of 1960 on his file, while Mohammed Mazharuddin ahmed (plaintiff) has preferred the Cross-Objections. The relevant facts leading to this appeal may shortly be stated.

( 2 ) THE plaintiff was appointed as a probationary Munsiff-Magistrate in the subordidinate Judicial Service of the erstwhile Hyderabad State on 16th June, 1948, and was later absorbed in a clear vacancy of the post of Munsif-Magistrate on 21st March, 1949 in the grade of Rs. 400 to Rs. 800 (O. S. ). He was posted in July, 1953 as Munsif Magistrate at Omerga in Osmanabad District. When the Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court visited Omerga on 20th July, 1953, some of the pleaders submitted an application to him making complaints and demanding the immediate transfer of the plaintiff. On 13th August, 1953, the Registrar of Hyderabad High court served on him a charge-sheet containing as many as nineteen charges, and requiring the plaintiff to show cause why action should not be taken against him imposing the penalty mention