1. The petitioner is one Chaturbhu) Sahai. He was an assistant in the Supply & Price Control Department of the Government of Bihar, but sometime in November, 1949, he was appointed a temporary Inspector, called Credit Agricole Inspector, under the Provincial Co-operative Bank (now called the Bihar State Co-operative Bank, Ltd.) at Patna. The petitioner says that he gave UD Government service and joined his new post on 26-11-1949. He was then sent for training, after the completion of which he was posted at Katihar, which post he joined on 4-2-1950. On 31-1-1954, the Board of Directors of the Bihar State Cooperative Bank, Ltd. passed a resolution by which the posts of eight Inspectors, including that of Sri Chaturbhuj Sahai, were retrenched. The reason given was the heavy shrinkage in the trading activities of the Bank, some of which had come to a complete cessation. In pursuance of the said resolution of the Board of Directors of the Bank, the Secretary of the Bank communicated to the petitioner by means of a letter dated 13-2-1954, that the petitioners services were terminated with immediate effect, and that in lieu of three months notice he would be given three months pay