( 1 ) THIS is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution for an appropriate "writ for quashing of certain orders passed by the Authorities of the Assam Railway against the petitioner reducing the petitioner from the rank of a Station Muster to a Signaller.

( 2 ) THE petitioner was posted as Station Master at Dinhata which was in the State of Cooch-Behar prior to 1-1-1950 when Cooch-Behar was absorbed into the State of West Bengal. In January 1949 while the petitioner was posted at Dinhata Station he was charged with offences of serious misconduct involving the offence of forgery. On 14-2-1949 the petitioner sent a reply to the charge sheet. On 18-3-1949 the petitioner was summoned to the office of the Deputy Chief Transportation Superintendent who held a departmental enquiry into the conduct of the petitioner. It is alleged in the petition that in holding this departmental enquiry, all the statutory rules relating to such enquiry were not observed. Particulars of such irregularities have been set out in the petition. By an order dated 19-8-1949 which was communicated to the petitioner on 1-9-1949, the Deputy Chief Transportation Superintendent, Assam Eailway, w