This is an application for issue of a writ of certiorari for quashing the order of the Officer on Special Duty, Manipur State Transport dated 24-9-57, by which the petitioner was removed from service.

2. The petitioner was appointed in the Hydro-Electric Board Office by the Chairman of the Hydro-Electric Board Office of the then Government of Manipur as a Motor Driver on 1-6-47 and he continued on a temporary basis in the said Department. By order No. 322 dated 15-5-50 he was appointed or rather transferred as Driver in the Manipur State Transport with effect from 1-5-50 by the Chief Commissioner of Manipur on the scale of pay of Rs. 45-3-75/-. This was after the integration of Manipur in the Indian Union. Then, by another order dated 9-4-52 issued by the Development and Revenue Commissioner and Ex-Officio Secretary to the Government of Manipur, he was appointed as a driver on the scale of pay of Rs. 50-3-80/- with effect from 26-12-51. Thereafter he continued on the revised scale of pay and was drawing increments and his pay was Rs. 65/-per month in February, 1956.

3. On 18-2-56, he was suspended from service on a charge that he was found carrying in the lorry given to his car