1. Petitioner an employee of the respondent – Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited discharging duties as an Assistant Engineer on probation, is entrusted with the maintenance of 18 feeders of electric supply connected to 64 villages, in addition to looking after Works unit and revenue collection. According to the petitioner, maintenance of electric feeders for supply of electricity amongst others, includes the maintenance of primary and secondary line of electric supply and maintenance of transformers requiring material like transformers, wires, poles, insulators, cross-arms, guy-wire, etc. In the discharge of duties, the petitioner is required to draw from the stores the required material by submitting estimates and indents, which when placed before the Executive Engineer – the Divisional Head of the Company, work orders are issued. The petitioner further states that he is required to return unused and scrap materials to the Divisional Stores including failed transformers which in effect, is accountability of material, a routine work of an Assistant Engineer.

2. It is the allegation of the petitioner that he is not given sufficient vehicle facility from time to