ORDER :

1. By way of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has challenged the legality and validity of the impugned orders passed by authorities below dated 18.02.2008 as well as dated 22.10.2008 at Annexures A and B respectively.

2. The case of the petitioner is that the petitioner has joined the service of respondent authority on 03.06.1971 on the post of Agriculture Supervisor and during the passage of time, petitioner was also promoted to the post of Joint Director of Agriculture. The petitioner has retired on attaining the age of superannuation on 30.06.2005. It is the case of the petitioner that while working as Deputy Director, Horticulture, he was served with the chargesheet on 12.12.2003 for alleged misconduct committed by him and the said charge-sheet was replied by way of tendering defence statement on 12.01.2004, ultimately, after considering the defence statement of petitioner, authority was pleased to appoint an Inquiry Officer vide order dated 11.03.2004. On 21.04.2004 as well as on 30.04.2004, the petitioner made a request to supply certain relevant documents so as to see that proper defence be presented. However, the said reques