JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Mr. Saurav Shekhar, counsel appearing for the petitioner and Mr. Sachin Kumar, for the respondent Life Insurance Corporation of India.

2. Petitioner has preferred this writ petition for quashing of the order of punishment dated 31.1.2013 and appellate order dated 17.9.2013.

3. Petitioner joined the services of respondents on 02.03.1992 as Assistant and was promoted to the post of H.G.A. and subsequently transferred to the Branch situated at Sindri on 28.10.2010. While petitioner was posted as H.G.A. a memorandum of charge was served upon the petitioner on 12.10.2011 alleging gross irregularities, which are as under:

“(i) The CSE, while working as HGA (Sales), Dhanbad Branch 2, used password of Shri S.Y. Bhatt, the ABM (S) and Sri K.K. Das also the then ABM(S) for entering and validating wrong Commission payments through Add Pay Menu of FEAP.

(ii) He was instrumental in making commission payment to the tune of Rs. 15,99,416/- without any supporting paper to 11 agents.

(iii) He used to approach the agents to whom these wrongful payments were made, to give amount to him for refunding the excess payments made to LIC. But he neither deposited the amount nor gave any receip