K. SUBBA RAO, C.J. :-

This is an application under Art.226 of the Constitution of India for issuing a writ of certiorari to quash the order of the Government dismissing the petitioner from service.

2 The petitioner was employed by the Madras State as Health Officer, Class I. In April, 1951, he was posted as District Health Officer, Guntur. On the basis of many complaints made against him, the Government directed the Tribunal for Disciplinary Proceedings to make an enquiry about his conduct. The Tribunal framed the following seven charges :

"1. That actuated by corrupt motives and in abuse of your position, you fraudulently claimed and drew travelling allowance for yourself and the members of your family for the journey from Visakhapatnam to Guntur on the 16th and 17th of May 1951, as if you all travelled by II class, while in fact, one of you all travelled by II Class.

2. That actuated by corrupt motives, you claimed and drew T. A. for your journey on 15-6-1951 from Guntur to Waltair and for the return journey from Waltair to Guntur by deliberately furnishing false certificates and that, for the entire journey from Guntur to Visakhapatnam, you travelled by II Class and that th