1. This is a petition under Art.226 of the Constitution by a Deputy Director of Fisheries in the State. He has prayed that the records leading to Ext.P5 order dated 23101975 may be called for and a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ or direction be issued quashing the same. He has also prayed for incidental reliefs. The order Ext. P5 is a very short one. We shall extract it:

"Under R.60 (a), Part I, Kerala Service Rules, Government hereby compulsorily retire Shri C. U. Sreedharan, Deputy Director of Fisheries, in public interest, with immediate effect "

Rule 60A (1), Part -I, K.S.R., is in these terms:

"60.A (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in R.60, or in any other provision of these rules, or in any other law, or in any contract or other document the Government may, in the public interest, order that an officer may compulsorily be retired at any time after he has attained the age of 48 years."

Sub-rule (2) contains the provision for calculating the pension of an officer compulsorily retired. It is unnecessary to extract that sub-rule as no question arises about the quantum of pension to be paid to the petitioner.

2. The petitioner had joined the Departme