1. This is a petition by a dismissed clerk of the University of Travancore praying that this Court should quash the order of dismissal and direct his reinstatement. The letter from the Registrar of University to the Curator, Manuscripts Library, Trivandrum, No. UA6/936/53, dated the 11th May 1953, in pursuance of which the petitioner's services were terminated with effect from the forenoon of the 12th May 1953 reads as follows:

"I have to inform you that the Syndicate having considered the reports of the audit of the accounts of the University Manuscripts Library and noted the irregularities disclosed therein and further having further considered the explanations that have been given by the Curator Sri. P.K. Narayana Pillai and the Clerk Sri. H. Gopalakrishna Iyer, has come to the conclusion that the Clerk Sri. H. Gopalakrishna Iyer has been systematically misappropriating funds and fabricating documents to cover up such misappropriation. The Syndicate has therefore resolved that Clerk Sri. H. Gopalakrishna Iyer be dismissed forthwith from service. Accordingly the Clerk Sri. H. Gopalakrishna Iyer has been dismissed from service with effect from the forenoon of 12th May,