Hon'ble Dr. KOTHARI, J.—The present old writ petition of 1998 filed by Laxmi Lal Maheshwari, who has expired during the long waiting period in the dockets of the Court on 8/4/2013, without being able to see the success of his case.

2. This petition was filed against his compulsory retirement order dated 9/5/1984, which was upheld by the Appellate Authority also on 1.7.1997 and aggrieved of both these orders, he had filed the present writ petition, spread into 110 pages with documents annexed with writ petition, the bulky record swelled to 345 pages, to which a reply was filed by the respondent Department also and after lengthy arguments of learned counsels, a brief written submission has also been submitted in the Court on the conclusion of arguments & thus, it is being disposed of by this Court by this order.

3. Brief facts considered apposite are that the petitioner having being appointed as LDC in the office of Commander, N.C.C. Group Headquarters, Udaipur on 5.1.1963 was promoted to the post of UDC on 10.5.1978. The incident for which the petitioner faced criminal trial as also the disciplinary proceedings pertains to the Month of February, 1978, when working as UDC a