J.B. Pardiwala, J.

1. By this application under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the applicant, a former Talati cum Mantri, has prayed for the following reliefs;

"(A) Your Lordship may be pleased to issue any appropriate writ order or direction and be pleased to quash and set aside the judgment in Appeal No. 62/2005 produced at Annex-A together with penalty order dated 15.6.2004 and order passed by Dy. D.D.O. dated 18.2.2005.

(B) Your Lordships may be pleased to grant all the consequential reliefs in terms of reinstatement in the service with continuity wages and all other benefits as a result of granting prayer-A as above.

(C) Pending admission and final disposal of this petition Your Lordship may be pleased to grant stay against any further implementation and operation of the impugned judgment and penalty order dated 15.6.2004, and direct the respondents to take the petitioner on job subject to the result of the petition.

(D) Your Lordships may be pleased to grant the cost of this petition."

2. The case of the applicant may be summarized as under;

3. The applicant, at the relevant point of time, was serving as a Talati cum Mantri of the Village: Palasa, Taluka: Kalol,