In the instant writ application, the petitioner has inter alia prayed for quashing notification dated 04.04.2013 whereby petitioner has been imposed with a punishment of reduction of pay-scale to the minimum of his post and recovery of Rs.12,10,620.34 out of the financial loss caused to the Government and further for quashing the notification dated 19.02.2014, whereby the appeal preferred by the petitioner has been rejected.

2. The brief facts giving rise for filing of the writ petition is that the petitioner at the time of filing of the writ application has been working as Assistant Engineer and posted as Estimating Officer, Building Construction Department, Chhotanagpur Circle, Ranchi. In compliance to the order dated 30.06.2009 passed in W.P.(PIL) No. 803 of 2009, a first information report was instituted by the Central Bureau of Investigation, ACB, Ranchi being RC 13(A)/2009 (R) for offences under Sections 120(B), 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, wherein preliminary enquiry was taken up for the alleged large scale irregularities committed by the Engineers of the Road Cons