JUDGMENT

1. The petitioner approached the Central Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai Bench, Mumbai (hereafter 'the Tribunal', for short) by instituting Original Application No. 221 of 2012 challenging the revisional order dated 2nd January 2012 passed by the Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra Circle and all orders/proceedings that preceded the same. By the impugned revisional order, the penalty of 'removal from service' was imposed on the petitioner by the revisional authority upon enhancement of the penalty of 'compulsory retirement from service' ordered by the appellate authority. By a judgment and order dated 25th November 2019, the Tribunal dismissed the original application. The judgment and order of the Tribunal is under challenge in this writ petition.

2. Although the petitioner had assailed the orders of the revisional authority, the appellate authority and the disciplinary authority on diverse grounds before the Tribunal, all of which failed, he has restricted his challenge in this writ petition to the revisional order on a short ground.

3. Revision was preferred by the petitioner under Rule 29 of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 (he