The petitioner, who is employed as a Deputy Executive Engineer with the A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited, mounts a challenge to the legality and validity of the order passed on 21.04.2012 by the first respondent-Andhra Pradesh State Housing Corporation Limited (henceforth referred to as ‘the Corporation’) imposing on him the punishment of dismissal from service, apart from ordering for recovery of the amount towards loss said to have been caused to the Corporation.

Heard Sri K.G. Krishnamurthy, learned Senior Counsel on behalf of the learned counsel for the petitioner Sri Mahadeva Kantrigala and Sri T. Sudhakar Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for the first respondent-Corporation.

It appears, the petitioner was initially recruited as a Work Inspector (Technical) by the respondent-Corporation in the year 1988 and subsequently he was promoted as an Assistant Engineer (Graduate) on 03.04.2006. He was further promoted as a Deputy Executive Engineer on 01.11.2008 and posted as such at C.K. Palli Sub-Division, Anantapur District. He was initially placed under suspension, pe