The petitioner was a Lower Division Clerk in Comilla, Tippora Collectorate. After the partition of India the petitioner co-opted for India and was posted in the Land Acquisition Collectorate in Calcutta. Thereafter be was confirmed as an Upper Division Clerk in the Election Department and subsequently he acted as Nazir of the Collectorate. Against the said promotion of the petitioner there was representation by other employees and thereupon the petitioner was demoted to his original post of Lower Division Clerk by the Divisional Commissioner. The petitioner moved this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India and obtained a rule and an order of injunction against the said order or demotion of the petitioner in C.R.7447(w) of 68. On 28th June, 1969 the petitioner was served with a chargesheet. The charges mainly were ; (1) the petitioner collected certain amounts form the salaries of the staff on the pay day for depositing in the respective Cumulative Deposit Accounts (Savings Bank and Postal) of each person but the same were not deposited promptly and kept the same with him and when the irregularity was brought to the notice of the authorities the deposits were m