1. The petitioner-Rangampeta Primary Agricultural Co-operative Society Limited, Rangampeta, East Godavari District, represented by its Secretary filed this writ petition questioning the order dated 24-07-2006 passed by the 2nd respondent-Authority under Section 48 (1) of the AP Shops & Establishments Act, 1988 (for short, the Shops and Establishment Act) and Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Rajahmundry, as being illegal, arbitrary, without jurisdiction and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution and also the provisions of the Shops and Establishment Act and consequently set aside the same and pass appropriate orders, to meet the ends of justice.

2. Brief facts of the case are:-1st respondent was appointed as Secretary of the Vadisaleru Primary Agriculture Co-operative Society Limited, which later merged into petitioner- Society, by the District Level Authority in the year 1978. On the allegations that 1st respondent, during the years 2000-2001, committed certain irregularities, which were pointed out by the auditor during the audit, in maintaining the fertilizer stocks and that the 1st respondent misappropriated the funds of the society, he was kept under susp