1. Heard Mr. R.C. Saikia, the learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. M.R. Adhikari, the learned Government advocate, Assam, for all the respondents.

2. The case of the petitioner may briefly be summarized at the outset.

3. The petitioner was appointed to the post of Lower Division Assistant under the Directorate of Sericulture Department and she joined the post on 1.7.19 94. She was confirmed to the post vide order dated 17.2.2004 with effect from 1.7.2003 (Annexure 1).

4. While she was serving in such capacity, the petitioner was served with a show-cause notice dated 30.6.2005 (Annexure 2), whereby, the following charges were made against her:

“(1) That while you were LDA in the Directorate of Sericulture, Assam, you did blackmail a Deputy Director of Sericulture, Assam, namely, Sri D.K. Saharia by forcibly kidnapping him by taking naked photographs jointly with him.

(2) You joined hand with an advocate, namely, Sri Pranjit Talukdar and forced Sri Saharia to sign a blank stamp paper demanding Rs. 50,000.

(3) You forced Sri Saharia to blackmail him sexually and took pornographic photograph with him.

(4) Being a married women you have a legal husband alive and you engaged yourself in illegal sexual activity with an advocate, named, Sri Pranjit Talukdar as a sex partner. The matter came to light in the leading Newspaper (Asomia Protidin) dated. 1.7.2004.

(5) You locked Sri D.K. Saharia in a room in the house of Sri Pranjit Talukdar and beat him with stick, rod and cricket bat, etc. You also abused Sri Saharia and took away his mobile phone and gold chain, etc., forcibly.

All these event were published in the local dailies, namely, (a) Dainik Agradoot, dated 30.6.2004, (b) Dainik Janambhumi, dated 30.6.2004, (c) Amur Asom, dated 30.6.2004, (d) Asomiya Agradoot, dated 1.7.2004.

(6) All the misdeeds done by you prove that you were engaged in illegal sexual activity with a view to earn easy money in unsocial and criminal ways which is unbecoming of a Government servant.

You are, therefore, charged with “Moral Turpitude” which leads to a crime of inherent baseness or violence.”

5. In consequence thereof as can be seen the petitioner was charged with “Moral Turpitude” and she was, therefore, asked to submit her written statement within 10 days. It was also provided that in case she wanted to inspect the documents, she should submit in writing to the Director of Sericulture within 7 days from the date of receipt of the communication and in which case she will be permitted 7 days time thereafter to submit her statement of defence. Along with show cause notice, the statement of allegations, list of documents and list of witnesses were attached therein. The petitioner then submitted her application for inspection of the documents vide letter dated 5.7.2005 (Annexure 3). Upon inspecting the documents the petitioner on 14.7.2005 (Annexure 4) submitted her reply to the show-cause notice denying the allegations made in the show-cause notice and with a request for a sympathetic consideration and human approach considering the fact that was revealed and that she may be allowed to continue her service on regular basis. She also prayed that necessary steps may be taken to punish Mr. D.K. Saharia and Mr. Pranjit Talukdar for trying to malign her reputation and outrage her modesty. After the show-cause reply was submitted by the petitioner, the appointed Inquiry Officer who was the Additional Director of the Sericulture Department submitted his inquiry report to the Directorate of the Sericulture on 28.2.2006 (Annexure 5) by enclosing documents, newspaper reports, photographs which were considered during the inquiry proceedings. It may be noted that the petitioner has been referred to as having been placed under suspension in the said communication. Pursuant to the submission of the inquiry report, a second show cause notice was issued to the petitioner on 16.2.2007 (Annexure 6), whereby the Director of Sericulture Department enacted that based u