P.N. RAVINDRAN, J.

1. The appellant is the petitioner in W.P.(C) No.17786 of 2014, wherein he had challenged Ext.P4 show cause notice dated 10.7.2007, issued by the second respondent calling upon him to show cause why the penalty of “removal from service” shall not be imposed on him in terms of Regulation 39(1)(f) of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (Staff) Regulations, 1960 (for short “the Regulations”). By judgment delivered on 11.12.2017, the learned single Judge dismissed the writ petition. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

2. The appellant entered service in the Life Insurance Corporation of India (hereinafter referred to as “the LIC” for short) on 1.2.1986 as a Development Officer. He was later promoted as Assistant Manager (Sales). While he was working as Assistant Branch Manager (Sales) in the Kalpetta Branch of the LIC, the second respondent issued and served on him Ext.P1 memo of charges dated 8.2.2002. The charges levelled against the appellant in Ext.P1 memo of charges read as follows:

“1. That while you were working as Development Officer, code No.86076 in Kunnamkulam Branch under Ernakulam Division during the period from 1986 to 1988, Sri P.K.U