1. Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader.

2. The petitioner had joined the Karnataka State Judicial Service as a Munsiff of 18.2.1987. He was promoted by selection to the post of Civil Judge (Senior Division) in the year 1997 and as a District and Sessions Judge on an ad-hoc basis during the year 2003. He had served at various places in the State of Karnataka. When he was working as a District and Sessions Judge at Karwar, where he was posted in March 2009, by an order dated 15.5.2009, the judicial work entrusted to the petitioner was withdrawn. The petitioner made two representations to the second respondent, after he found that his name was recommended for compulsory retirement. However, by a Notification dated 23.6.2009, the petitioner, alongwith fourteen other Judicial Officers, was permitted to retire in public interest under Sub-Rule (4) of Rule 285 of the Karnataka Civil Services Rules (Hereinafter referred to as ‘the KCSRs’ for brevity) and he was relieved from service on the afternoon of 24.6.2009. He was aged 53 then. The petitioner had filed a review petition seeking reconsideration of the order. He had also made a re