JUDGMENT :

Shampa Sarkar, J.

1. This writ petition has been filed challenging the disciplinary proceeding initiated against the petitioner on the basis of the charge sheet dated November 14, 2011, which resulted in the submission of the enquiry officer's report and ultimately led to the order of the disciplinary authority dated November 20, 2012, dismissing the petitioner from service. The case of the petitioner as canvassed in the writ petition is that, the petitioner was appointed as a lecturer, (now renamed as assistant professor) of mathematics in the RCC Institute of Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as the said college) in January 2006. On and from January 2006, the petitioner was a member of a staff association and later functioned as its president. The association campaigned against certain illegalities in the college. The petitioner along with several members of the association, met the officer-in-charge of the said college, Smt. Arpita Banerjee on June 10, 2011 and submitted a memorandum of demands. The officer-in-charge misbehaved with them and the petitioner and Professor Sukla Banerjee filed a written complaint with the police. An FIR was registered and Til