1. By means of this writ petition filed on 01.02.2008, the petitioner has challenged the Annexure-X order dated 27.12.2006, by which, pursuant to a departmental proceeding, the disciplinary authority imposed on him penalty of compulsory retirement in terms of Regulation 4 (h) of Punjab National Bank Officer Employees, (D&A) Regulations, 1977. The petitioner has also challenged the Annexure-XII communication dated 16.07.2007, by which the departmental appeal preferred by him against the penalty of compulsory retirement was rejected. It will be pertinent to mention here that during the pendency of the writ petition, the petitioner was communicated about the outcome of the review petition that he had submitted seeking review of the major penalty of compulsory retirement. By the said communication dated 05.05.2008, the petitioner was informed of the order of the reviewing authority dated 21.04.2008, by which the penalty of compulsory retirement imposed by the disciplinary authority and confirmed by the appellate authority was substituted by imposing the major penalty of “reduction of his salary to five stages lowering the time scale of pay till the date of his retirement in