D.G.R. Patnaik, J.

1. This appeal by the defendant appellant has been filed against the judgment dated 22.12.1995 and the corresponding decree dated 11.1.1996 passed by the Sub judge VIth, Ranchi in Money Suit No. 3 of 1993 whereby the suit filed by the plaintiff respondent was decreed in favour of the plaintiff and against the defendant/appellant.

2. The plaintiff had filed the suit for decree for a sum of rupees 25 lakhs and also for mandatory injunction directing the defendant to publish in any daily news paper that the plaintiff is innocent and he was removed from the post of Superintendent illegally by asking him to proceed on leave.

3. The case of the plaintiff is that being possessed of requisite qualifications with Degrees in Medicine as well as in Psychiatry, he was posted as the Superintendent of the Ranchi Mansik Arogyashala, Kanke, Ranchi, in September, 1978. During his tenure as the senior-most officer of the Hospital he had acquired vast experience in the field of Psychiatry and had built up a very good public image and a good practice in the field of Psychiatry. Some interested officials with mala fide objectives and designs, managed to get a letter sent to the