Hegde, J.

1. In this petition under Arts. 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India (mere appropriately it should be a petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution), the petitioner challenges the legality of the order passed by the Government in No. FD 3 CSE 60, dated 22 September, 1962, hereinafter called "the impugned order." By means of that order, the Government of Mysore (respondent 1) reduced the petitioner to the minimum of the grade of second division clerk for a period of three years after finding him guilty of charges 2 and 3 of the charges framed against him on 15 December, 1961.

2. The facts of this case lie within a narrow compass. The petitioner was a first division clerk in the office of the Commercial Tax Officer, Davangere, in the month of December 1959. In December he took one month's leave and came to Bangalore. On 26 December, 1959 he is said to have gone to the shop of one S. M. Seetharamayya (P.W. 1.) in Bangalore and told him that an anonymous petition (Ex. P. 1) had been sent against him to the Commercial Tax Officer alleging that he was evading sale-tax and that the same had been endorsed to him by the Commercial Tax Officer for enquiry. It is further