ORDER :

1. By filing this writ petition the petitioner has assailed the order dated 14.01.2020 passed by the Dy. Inspector General of Police, Sub-District Superintendent of Police, Bharatpur (Office of Superintendent of Police, Bharatpur) [For short ‘the Disciplinary Authority’], whereby he was dismissed from service after exercising the powers under Rule 19(ii) of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1958 (for short ‘the Rules of 1958’). The petitioner has also assailed the order dated 16.12.2020 passed by the Inspector General of Police, Bharatpur Range, Bharatpur (for short ‘the Appellate Authority), whereby the appeal of the petitioner filed against the punishment order dated 14.01.2020 was dismissed and the penalty imposed upon him of dismissal from service was upheld.

2. Counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that no opportunity of hearing was accorded to the petitioner before his dismissal from service after exercising the powers under Rule 19(ii) of the Rules of 1958, which is ex-facie arbitrary, illegal and is a sheer case of misuse of the powers. Counsel further submitted that neither any notice to show- cause nor any notice of hear