B. N. BANERJEE, J.

( 1 ) AT a time when road transportation was a department of the Government of West Bengal, the petitioner was appointed, in the year 1949, as a temporary store clerk in the Hastings Street Garage. He was thereafter promoted as a temporary store-keeper in the Lake Depot. On and from August 16, 1954, the petitioner became a store-keeper, on a temporary basis, in the central Workshop. At all times material for the purposes of this Rule, the petitioner was receiving a substantive pay of Rs. 172/- per month.

( 2 ) WITH effect from June 15, 1960, the Government of West Bengal established a Road Transport Corporation, known as the Calcutta State Transport Corporation, in exercise of its power under Section 3 of the Road Transport Corporation Act 1950. The services of the petitioner stood transferred to the Calcutta State Transport Corporation which took over the local transport business of the State Government.

( 3 ) ON August 16, 1960, the petitioner was charged with several heads of misconduct, as hereinafter stated:--"1. On 16-6-60 it was reported to you by Shri Gabinda Banerjee, Stores Assistant (Senior), that 15 pieces of Dodge bearings were missing from a sect

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