PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, J.

1. In the year 1986 the respondent No.2 joined National Institute of Fashion Technology i.e. the petitioner as an Assistant Registrar.

2. On December 16, 2004 a charge memo was issued to him alleging as under:- “Article of Charge – I That Shri O.P. Sharma while functioning as Dy. Registrar (Administration), NIFT, New Delhi, during 1997, had raised a debit note dated 30th July, 1997 which is reproduced below:

“An amount of Rs.17,45,126/- (Rupees Seventeen lakhs forty five thousand and one hundred and twenty six only) was spent by NIFT New Delhi on account of payment towards purchase of Steam Finishing Systems (RAMSONS). This amount has to be divided among 5 NIFT Centres at Chennai, Calcutta, Mumbai, Gandhinagar and Hyderabad. The share for your Branch works out to Rs.3,49,025.50 (Rupees Three lakhs forty nine thousand twenty five and paise twenty only)”

The above debit note does not indicate the File and the authority who approved the raising of the debit note. Moreover the said debit note does not indicate the number, type, quality and specifications of the Steam Finishing Systems which had been supposedly purchased for the NIFT Centres by the He