This writ petition has been instituted seeking a Writ of Mandamus for declaring the charge sheet issued on behalf of the respondent – Andhra Bank on 9.3.2010 in violation of Regulation 10 of Andhra Bank Officer Employees (Discipline and Appeal) Regulations, 1981, by the 2nd respondent and the consequential order of appointment of the 3rd respondent as Enquiry Officer on 29.4.2010 as illegal and to set aside the same.

The writ petitioner was said to have been initially recruited as a casher in the service of the respondent-bank on 17.4.1985. On1.1.1993, he earned promotion as a Junior Management Grade – Scale I Officer, henceforth for brevity referred to as `officer’. He worked as an officer at Ke-samudram Branch of Warangal Zone and later on at Nakkalagutta Branch at Hanumakonda. Subsequently, on 30.5.2009, he was transferred and posted as Assistant Manager, at Kakatiya Medical College (KMC) Branch, Warangal.

It is stated that on 26.8.2009, he was summoned to the Nakkalagutta Branch where he worked as a Departmental Officer and Gold Loan Officer earlier and he was pressurized into accepting certain irregularities in the matter of sanction of gold loans. It was also allege