The petitioner was working as a Finger Print Expert in the Police Department at Kottayam when he was arrested and remanded to the Sub Jail, Pathanamthitta on 18-8-1980 as an accused in Crime No. 94/80 of the Aranmula Police Station. The incident in respect of which he was arrested and detained took place on 15-8-1980, when, it is stated, eleven persons, including the petitioner, formed themselves into an unlawful assembly in his house and abused one Abdullah, Secretary of the Kalbor Jama Ath, and pelted stones at his house on account of some differences of opinion arising in the Jama ath. This was met with counter action by the other faction, namely the sympathizers of Abdullah. A clash resulted in the course of which one person died. A crime case was registered wherein the petitioner figured as the eleventh accused. lle was arrested on 18-8-1980 and remanded to the Sub Jail by the Judicial Magistrate of the Second Class, Pathanamthitta on 19-8-1980.

2. On receipt of information about the arrest, the first respondent, Deputy Inspector General of Police, specifically passed an order Ext.P1 on 21-8-1980 placing the petitioner under suspension with effect from 18-8-1980, th