JUDGMENT

S. Ravindra Bhat, J. (OPEN COURT)

1. On the previous date of hearing, this Court had issued notice requiring the respondents to produce the record of the inquiry and the records pertaining to the order of the Disciplinary Authority. Further to that order, the respondents have produced the relevant record.

2. Issue Rule.

3. Mr. Amritpal Singh, Advocate submits that the petition can be disposed of at this stage after final hearing.

4. The petitioner, who, at the relevant time was working in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at its Jorhat ONGC unit in Assam, was served charges through a Memorandum dated 29th December, 2010.

5. Prior to that, he was kept under suspension from 17.05.2010 to 30.06.2010 pending initiation of departmental proceedings. The charges levelled were that, while on duty at the IGI Airport/FRRO, New Delhi on the night of 28/29th April, 2010, a passenger, Jhirmal Singh, who arrived from Paris by flight No. AF 226 at about 10.45 p.m. complained that he (petitioner) extorted money to the extent of 100 Eruos from him.

6. It was also urged that the petitioner had been identified by the said complainant, Jhirmal Singh in the presence of M