JUDGMENT :

BIREN VAISHNAV, J.

1. By the way of this under Article 226 of the Constitution of India the petitioner is challenging the order of the Appellate Authority dated 26.11.2018 by which the appellate Authority has confirmed the order of dismissal dated 23.06.2000.

2. Facts in brief as set out in the earlier rounds of litigation at the hands of the Petitioner have been elicited in one of the Oral Order dated 24.8.2018 passed in Letters Patent Appeal No. 1085 of 2017 by the Division Bench of this Court and therefore to avoid duplicity, the Order dated 24.8.2018 is reproduced hereunder:

“1. The present letters patent appeal arises out of the impugned order dated 19.6.2017 passed in the captioned writ petition. The short issue which arises for consideration by this court is whether the impugned order dated 4.3.2017 passed by the respondent-appellate authority meets the requirements of Regulation 31(2) of the Vadodara Grameen Bank (Staff Service) Regulations, 1983 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Regulations’) and the law enunciated by the Apex Court in the cases of Vijay Singh vs