Dama Seshadri Naidu, J.

1. The present writ appeal is filed assailing the order dated 30.12.2009 in W.P. No. 7238 of 2003, whereby and whereunder, a learned single Judge of this Court allowed the writ petition, setting aside the punishment imposed on the 1st respondent herein by the appellant, Anakapally Rural Electrical Cooperative Society Limited. ("the Society" for brevity.)

2. The facts in brief are that the appellant is a society registered under the A.P. Cooperative Societies Act, with an all pervasive control exercised by the State, thus rendering itself an instrumentality of State. The 1st respondent herein was originally appointed as a Lower Division Clerk on 18.11.1974. He is said to have completed more than three decades of service by the time of filing of the writ petition. He was, in course of time, promoted as Administrative Officer from the category of Manager on 18.05.1999.

3. While he was the Manager, he was also required to act on full time, temporarily though, as Managing Director of the appellant Society, ever since the then Managing Director had been