N.P. Singh, J.

The petitioner has challenged the validity of the ORDER :of his removal from the post of Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Department, by the State Government, in this writ application.

2. In the year 1980 the petitioner was posted as Superintending Engineer in the Irrigation Department. The petitioner was deputed to the Department of Minor Irrigation by an ORDER :of the State Government. He joined as the Superintending Engineer, Minor Irrigation, Hazaribagh Circle, on 15.11.1981. The petitioner was also holding the additional charge of the Minor Irrigation Circle, Daltonganj. As the Superintending Engineer the petitioner placed ORDER :s for supply of P.V.C. pipes, for Rs.113.02 lacs on 18.3.1982, 19.3.1982, 26.3.1982. According to the petitioner, the then Irrigation Minister Shri Ramesh Jha was pressing the petitioner to buy H.D.P. pipes instead of P.V.C. As the petitioner did not obey the dictate of the Minister Irrigation, on 20th July, 1982, he was reverted from the Department of Minor Irrigation to the parent Department of Irrigation. The petitioner filed a writ application (C.W.J.C. No. 3513 of 1982) before this Court challenging the ORDER :of reversi