The petitioner Shri Prafulla Chandra Bhowmik, who held the rank of senior clerk in the Relief and Rehabilitation Department and whose service was terminated by the second respondent, the Director of the said Department by the notice Annexure 5 dated 8-2-1959, has filed the petition praying for the issue of a Writ to quash the said order of termination.

(2) The petitioner belonged to East Bengal which is now East Pakistan and he was in Military service as a civilian clerk and he was discharged on 31-8-1947 (Annexure 6). Subsequently he was employed temporarily in the Civil Supply Depart­ment of Tripura (Annexures 7 and H) and after that temporary employment ceased, he was ap­pointed by the Chief Commissioner, Tripura, as clerk in the Relief and Rehabilitation Department in the grade Rs. 50-5-75/- on 1-8-1951 (Annexure 1). His pay in that scale was raised to Rs. 75/- with effect from 9-10-1951 (Annexure 2). Later he was appointed to the post of Assistant Supervisor, which is an upper division post, from 25-4-1953 on a pay of Rs. 80/- on the scale Rs. 80-4-100/- (An­nexure 3). Again, by Annexure 4 dated 14-10-1958 he was promoted by the Director of the De­partment as senior clerk in th

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