Dama Seshadri Naidu, J.

The petitioner is the unsuccessful applicant in O.A. No. 180/00416/2016 before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ernakulam. He initially joined the Postal Department in 1982 and came up in ranks to be a Senior Superintendent of Post Offices. While he was working at Palakkad, in 2014 the petitioner was deputed and posted as Passport Officer at Malappuram, the tenure being three years, as seen from Annexure A1.

2. On 20.07.2015, the petitioner was suspended under Rule 10 (2) of the CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965: he had been in judicial custody for more than 24 hours on his having been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on the charge of corrupt practices. Assailing Annexure A3 order of suspension, the petitioner filed Annexure A4 departmental appeal, which resulted in his reinstatement through Annexure A5. In fact, the appellate authority revoked the petitioner's suspension through Annexure A6 order dated 08.12.2015, and later he was repatriated. But before the petitioner could be repatriated, perhaps in anticipation, he submitted Annexure A7 representation to the authorities pleading that if the petitioner was to be repatriated, he should be gi