( 1 ) THE petitioners before me are two clerks employed in the Mission Row Post Office (subordinate service ). It appears that on 5th of September 1950, a memorandum was issued by the Superintendent of Post Office, South Calcutta Division, to the following effect:"the under-mentioned officials having been arrested by the police under Sections 261, 262 and 420, I. P. C. Section 5 (2) of Act II of 1947 and conspiracy under section 120b, I. P. C. are placed under suspension with effect from the afternoon of 2-9-1950. (1) Sri Hemanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, S. P. M. , Mission Row. (2) Sri Surya Kumar Chatterjee, Clerk Mission Row, T. S. O. (3) Mahadeo Singh, clerk, Mission Row, T. S. O. For the first year of their suspension Sri Hemanta Kumar Bhattacharjee and Sri Surya Kumar Chatterjee will receive- as their subsistence grant half the average pay drawn by them during the 12 months preceding the date of suspension. They will get no allowance. During the subsequent period of suspension they will get 3/8th of the above-mentioned average pay. Mahadeo Singh will receive as subsistence grant for the first year of his suspension half the average pay drawn by him during the 12 months