( 1 ) THE facts in this case are shortly as follows : The petitioner was appointed in 1929 as an Assistant Station Master and was subsequently promoted to the post of a Station Master. While he was posted at the Palari Station, on or about 20-3-1954, he was served with a charge-sheet. The charge-sheet was signed by the District Traffic Superintendent, Nainpur. A copy of the charge-sheet is Annexure "e" to the petition. Substantially, the charge that the petitioner had on more than one occasion, in spite of warning, indulged in impertinence and unnecessarily rude and disrespectful language in official correspondence. Instances of such use have been set out in the charge-sheet itself. The first extract for example, shows that he was writing to the District Traffic Superintendent, assuming the title of "legal Pandit", stating that this title had been, "bestowed upon him by Sriman G. S. Rajan'. who was no other than the District Traffic Superintendent himself. There are several other extracts in which words have been indiscriminately used, without observing the restraint and decorum that should be observed in correspondence between persons in subordinate employment and their