Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.

This writ application has been preferred challenging the order of suspension dated 2nd July, 2003, the charge sheet dated 2nd August, 2003, the inquiry report dated 17th March, 2008, the second show cause notice dated 16th May, 2008 and the final order of punishment dated 12th June, 2008.

The broad essential facts, which need to be adumbrated for the decision of the instant writ application, are that the petitioner was conferred the Master of Commerce Degree after he passed the said examination securing 1st Class marks. Thereafter the petitioner was conferred Ph.D. in Accountancy from the University of Calcutta. Upon participating in a selection process and upon emerging to be successful in the same, he was appointed as a fulltime Lecturer in the Department of Commerce (Accountancy) in Ananda Mohan College (hereinafter referred to as the ‘said College’) with effect from 1st September, 1999 and his service was duly confirmed on 9th September, 2000. According to the petitioner, his colleagues were jealous of his success as a teacher and, as such they hatched up a conspiracy and one Smt. Ayantika Ghosh, a lecturer in Bengali in the said college submi