( 1 ) THE petitioner was appointed as a clerk in the Central Telegraph Office sometime in May 1944. He was made permanent in June 1948. There is no written contract of service. In February, 1944, the petitioner had been selected as a candidate for the post and he was required to undergo training without allowance. He joined the department for the purpose of training on or about 4-3-1944 and on that date he signed a declaration to the following effect : "i do hereby declare that I have read the Government Servants' Conduct Rules and thoroughly understood them. "

( 2 ) IT appears that the petitioner interested himself in trade union activities. Some time in 1949, a printed handbill was issued under the signature of six persons including that of the petitioner who is shown therein as the Secretary of the Telegraphic branch of the Union of Posts and Telegraph Workers. This handbill, or the "leaflet" as it has been called, is in the Bengali, language and calls upon the Posts and Telegraph Workers to observe 13-8-1949 as Unity Day for the Posts and Telegraph workers. The leaflet proceeds to state that the authorities were victimising workers, because of trade-union activities