This petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking to quash the order dated 7.11.2008 passed by the Disciplinary Authority and order dated 31.3.2009 passed by the appellate authority dismissing the petitioner from service and confirmation thereof, produced to the writ petition at Annexure-M & P respectively.

2. The facts of the case to be stated in brief are that the petitioner joined the service on 10.3.1979 as a clerk and thereafter he was promoted as an Officer in Junior Management Grade ScaleI on 11.8.1986 and as Manager in Middle Management Grade Scale-II on1.4.1997. While he was Branch Manager of Syndicate Bank, Kadugondanahalli Branch, the petitioner was placed under suspension on the allegation that he had misused his position as Branch Manager and had processed and sanctioned housing loans in the names of purported employees of SCT Institute of Technology without ensuring genuineness of the borrowers, their employment, salary etc., and without ensuring existence of the flats and released the subsequent instalments of housing loans. The petitioner had unduly accommodated Sri K A Subramanya, the promoter of SCT Institutes exceeding his auth