Heard.

1. By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has assailed legality and validity of initiation of departmental enquiry and has prayed for quashing of charge sheet issued by 3rd respondent by the order of 1st respondent.

Vide impugned charge sheet, a departmental enquiry has been initiated against the petitioner on two articles of charges which are reproduced as below :

ARTICLE OF CHARGES

“1. X X X

2. During your tenure of posting as referred above, you had used filthy abusive and unparliamentary language in the name mother and sister against your subordinate Class-IV employees namely Shri Mukesh Kumar Razak, Shri Ajay Mourya, Shri Vikky Chouhan, Ku. Hemlata Yadav, Shri Sohan Sinha, Shri Narayan Prasad Harinkhede, Shri Shyam Lal Arya on many occasions and threatened to remove them from the services, thereby, caused mental torture and harassment to your subordinate employees.

3. You directed the Nazir not to allow Shri Mukeh Kumar Razak and Ku. Hemlata Yadav to put their signatures on the attendance register.”

The gravamen of charges against the petitioner is that during the period of his posting as Judge, Family Court Dhamtari, he used fil