ORDER :

Heard.

1. Instant petition is against the order dated 30/01/2006 whereby the order of removal from service has been passed in respect of the petitioner who was working as an Assistant Grade-III and was discharging his duties as an Execution Clerk in the District Court, Bilaspur.

2. (i)The petitioner was issued with the charge sheet by the District Judge, Bilaspur with allegation that while he was posted as Criminal Reader in the Court of Shri D.N. Shukla, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bilaspur in between period 9/06/1997 to 3/09/1998 he received the property worth Rs.1450/- from different Police Stations and did not deposit in the Malkhana. Similarly, while he was posted in the court of J.M.F.C. (Shri G.S. Netam) Bilaspur from 4/02/1998 to 6/02/1999 he again received properties from different Police Stations worth Rs.8744/-and did not deposit into the Malkhana. Thereby total he received properties amounting to 10,194/- and did not deposit it in the Malkhana. Consequently, it leads to criminal breach of trust.

(ii) Further charges against the petitioner were that during his tenure as an Execution Clerk, he did not deposit the criminal cases in the record room and they we