JUDGMENT :

Petitioner has approached this Court for quashing the Office Order No.01/Estb.-233/03/1945 dated 30.11.2017 (Annexure-14) issued by Managing Director, Jharkhand State Housing Board, Ranchi, whereby and whereunder punishment of compulsory retirement has been inflicted against the petitioner.

2. The fact of the case in short as has been delineated in the writ petition is that the Petitioner was employed as an Assistant Electrician in the Jharkhand State Housing Board, Jamshedpur. While in service, the wife of the petitioner had applied for allotment of residential plot through lottery in the year 1997 and after being declared successful, a plot was allotted in favour of the wife of the petitioner. As petitioner was not having any residential house, the Executive Engineer, Jharkhand State Housing Board, Jamshedpur vide Memo No.3658 dated 06.12.1996 allotted House No.22/2-1 in favour of the petitioner on temporary basis on rent. On 08.06.2001 he made an application for making permanent allotment of the said house in his favour and for entering into Hire Purchase Agreement and consequently recommendation in this regard was made in favour of the petitioner. After considering the