Misra, J.

1. This is an application under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India for the issue of an appropriate writ quashing the order of the Government of India, dated the 31st, July, 1064, annexure A to the petition, and, in the alternative, for directing the opposite party to disclose the charges against the petitioner available to the opposite party on the 31st July, 1964, and the nature of the departmental proceeding against him on the same date. The petitioner is a member of the Indian Police Service having been recruited as a result of a competitive examination held in the year 1956. His appointment was made on the 26th of January, 1957. His case is that he served in various capacities in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar, when he was posted as Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Southern Range, Ranchi, in this State substantively in June 1962. On the 23rd of July, 1964, however he received an order of transfer to Patna and was posted as Special Officer, Political, General and Transport Department (Transport Branch), Patna. While he was serving in that capacity, he received a communication from the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New De