JUDGMENT :

1. Vide the present petition, the petitioner seeks direction thereby quashing the impugned order No. C.14015/08/2012/-Disc/180 dated 10.05.2016 of punishments passed by the respondents by which the respondents had arbitrarily and illegally rejected the appeal of the petitioner against the assailed order dated 26-29.05.2015 passed by the Disciplinary Authority.

2. The petitioner initially joined on 20.02.1991, the erstwhile National Airport Authority of India as Assistant Executive Engineer (Group A) which was later on re-designated as Manager Engineering (Civil). Thereafter, promotion of the petitioner reached at the level of Joint General Manager Engineering (Civil) on 20.10.2006 due to inter seniority merger between National Airports Division and International Airports Division which became single entity as Airports Authority of India/respondent No.1, notified on dated 01.04.1995 by the Union of India under review DPC {hereinafter being referred to as JGM Engg (Civil) from the post of DGM Engg (Civil) in the cadre post, but continued as the Airport Director at Srinagar Airport in the ex-cadre post till dated 30.03.2007. Thereafter, on 12.04.2007, the petitioner was trans