1. The facts in this case are shortly as follows: the petitioner was previously employed under the Imperial Bank of India, which has now become the State Bank of India. At the relevant time, he was employed as a Money-Teller or Money-Tester, in the branch of the State Bank of India at Howrah. On the 22nd October, 1956 he was suspended by the Agent, State Bank of India, Howrah, and in January, 1957 he was served with a charge-sheet. I shall mention briefly what the charges were about. It is a practice of the Howrah Branch of the State Bank for currency notes to be sorted in packets of various denominations, stitched together with a slip known as a "poddar" slip, signed by the Cashier or Money Tester. These bundles contain notes aggregating to rupees one hundred in each bundle and where there is a shortfall, they are re-adjusted by transferring notes from one bundle to another. When the notes become dirty, they are sent to the currency for being changed into clean notes. During the process of making the bundles, sending them to the currency etc., the petitioner used to handle the same. About the end of August, 1956, it was reported that in these bundles considerable shortage