Judgment Bapna, J.-This is a petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India.

2. The petitioner, Har Prasad, was employed as Head Travelling Ticket Examiner (Head T. T. E.) and was directed by his superior officer D. T. S. Bandikui, to appear before the District Medical Officer (D. M. O.), Bandikui, for periodical eyesight examination. The D. M. O., after examination, referred Mr. Har Prasad to the Chief Medical Officer (C. M. O.), who declared Mr. Har Prasad as unfit owing to defective eye-sight. Mr. Har Prasad was then ordered by the Chief Traffic Inspector (C. T. I.), Bandikui, to rejoin on the expiry of his leave as Head Ticket Collector at Jaipur on the 2nd of November, 1950. The petitioner filed an appeal to the D. T. S., Bandikui, T. S. Ajmer, C. T. M., Bombay, and General Manager, Bombay. As a result of these representations, he was asked to appear again before the Chief Medical Officer, Bombay, on 8-3-1951. The C. M. O. maintained his earlier opinion and nothing came out of the petitioner’s representations. He has accordingly approached this Court, and has urged that his being posted as Head Ticket Collector involves a reduction in rank, which could not be done wit

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