Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.

This application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been preferred by the petitioner challenging the impugned second show-cause notice dated 17.02.2010 issued by the respondent no.3.

In the writ application it has been averred, inter alia, that the petitioner was employed under the respondent no.1 since 1978 and in the midst of such service tenure, he was promoted to the post of Junior Manager (F) and (A), Midnapore Transmission Project, (Field Zone – II). To overcome a daily journey of about 30 kms for the purpose of attending office at Tamluk, the petitioner starting residing at a rented house in the town of Tamluk on and from the month of January, 2006 and his other family members were residing in the paternal house at village Kakdighi, Mecheda and in the said paternal house the petitioner, being an employee of the respondent no.1, was provided a staff service connection for electricity marked as Service Connection No.D-577, the Consumer No.A-07198 and there was also a commercial service connection being No.C-200 and Consumer No.A-07199 in the name of the petitioner’s father, namely, Satish Chandra Samanta, since deceased. On