JUDGMENT :

1. In the present writ petition the petitioner has assailed the order dated 05.11.2003, passed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Vadodara City, dismissing the petitioner from the service as well as the orders passed in the Appeal and Revision Application i.e. dated 26.12.2003 and dated 12.01.2006 respectively.

2. The brief facts are as under.

2.1 The petitioner was serving as a Police Constable with the respondents since 1984. On 15.03.1990, the petitioner was suspended from service in view of the serious charges of theft of various motorcycles and selling them. The petitioner was served with a charge-sheet on 12.01.1994, inter alia for the charges that he had stolen motorcycles, which are mentioned therein by using duplicate keys and selling them by replacing them by duplicate number plates. The petitioner did not reply to the charge-sheet for the reason that the documents, as demanded by him, were not supplied.

2.2 Simultaneously, criminal complaints were also registered against the petitioner being Criminal Cases Nos.1808 of 1990, 1809 of 1990, 1769 of 1990, 1790 of 1990 and 1791 of 1990. The petitioner was acquitted in the criminal offences, which were registered for