Ramaswami, J.

1. In this case, the petitioner Gopi Kishore Prasad has moved the High Court for the issue of a writ in the nature of certiorari to quash an order of the Government of Bihar dated 23-7-1953 discharging the petitioner from Government service as Probationary Sub-Deputy Collector.

2. The petitioner Gopi Kishore Prasad was appointed as a temporary Sub-Deputy Collector in the year 1944 and in 1946 the petitioner was vested with the powers of a first class Magistrate. On 8-12-1947 the petitioner was appointed to a Substantive post in the Bihar Subordinate Civil Service and was placed on probation. On 4-11-1952 the Government of Bihar issued a notice to the petitioner asking him to show cause why his services should not be terminated. The notice is annexure A to the application. In this notice the Government say that the petitioner had earned notoriety as a corrupt officer while he was posted at Jamshedpore, and that his judicial work was carefully scrutinized by the Government and in eight criminal cases the orders of acquittal passed by the petitioner were found to be perverse. The notice further states that from May 1949 to March 1951 the petitioner was posted at