ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the following relief:-

“...to issue writ or direction preferably Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent nos.2 to 5 in not allowing the petitioner to join duty and also action of the respondents in not releasing balance salary of suspension period i.e., after deducting subsistence allowance for the period from 19.5.2008 to 11.9.2012 i.e., date of reinstatement order and thereafter regular salary as illegal, arbitrary, contrary to record and violative of principles of natural justice and consequently direct the respondents to release salary for the above said period and grant all consequential benefits...”.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he was initially appointed as clerk cum cashier on 24.05.1982 in the Respondent Bank. Thereafter, in the year 2006, he was promoted as Special Assistant. While so, he was placed under suspension on 19.05.2008 on the allegation of involvement in criminal case regarding missing of cash from the bank. In the said criminal case, vide CC.no.523/2008, the petitioner was convicted by the learned V Addl. Junior Civil Judge, Guntur on 04.10.2010 and