1. THIS appeal under cl. 15 of the letters Patent is directed against the judgment and order of M. N. Roy, J., made in Civil rule No. 52 (W) of 1974 discharging the Rule.

2. THE petitioner was an employee of the respondent No. 1 and was at the relevant time working as Chief Inspector, Food and Supplies at Bongaon in the District of 24 Parganas. On May 4, 1978, the petitioner was served with a charge-sheet alleging inter alia: charge No. 1: That while employed as inspector, F. and S. Ranaghat, Nadia during the year 1959, you had been in possession of pecuniary assert to the extent of Rs. 10,700 which is disproportionate to the known sources of your income and which you failed to satisfactorily account for and may be presumed to have been acquired by you by corrupt means or otherwise obscuring (sic) your power as public servant. Charge No. 2: That while employed as inspector, F. and S., Ranaghat, Nadia, you purchased and acquired a building at Sidnantapara, Ranaghat (Vide deed No. 1, 2033 dt. 4-3-59) in the name of your dependant wife S. n. Protima Rani Ghosh at a very low price and that you concealed this fact of acquisition by not wilfully obtaining prior permission of the