( 1 ) QUESTIONING the proceedings of the Regional Manager, dated 18. 11. 1997, the present writ petition is filed.

( 2 ) PETITIONER a conductor in a. P. S. R. T. C. , alleged to have driven the bus unauthorisedly on 13. 12. 1975 resulting in an accident, was removed from service. The appeal preferred by him was rejected by the Regional Manager and thereafter he preferred a Review Petition to the Chief Traffic Manager. The Chief traffic Manager, in his proceedings dated 18. 11. 1977, appointed him as a conductor afresh. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner filed a revision to the 1st respondent on 6-3-1981, but his revision was rejected by the 1st respondent by proceedings dated 16. 10. 1981. Aggrieved thereby he filed w. P. No. 24155 of 1996 and this Court by order dated 14. 11. 1996 held that the reasons given by the Reviewing Authority, in dismissing the Review Application, was not correct and that as a matter of fact the petitioner was dismissed from service as he was driving an A. P. S. R. T. C. Bus without any valid license. This Court directed the authority to consider the case of the petitioner on merits by looking into the entire record, within a period of two months.

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