JUDGMENT :

The present writ petition has been filed for quashing the order as contained in memo No. 36 dated 13.02.2001 (Annexure-6 to the writ petition) issued under the signature of the respondent No.3 by the order of the respondent No.4 imposing following punishments upon the petitioner:-

(i) Verification of up-to-date distribution of Red Cards/deposited amount as well as recovery of undistributed Red Cards be done and the collected amount which has not been deposited by the petitioner, be recovered from him with 12% interest and the same be deposited in the treasury.

(ii) Since the charges levelled against the petitioner regarding indiscipline, arbitrariness and negligence in distribution of Red Cards/deposit of collected amount have been proved, his two increments with non-cumulative effect are being withheld.

(iii) Period of unauthorized absence of the petitioner be treated as without salary.

(iv) Nothing will be paid to the petitioner, except subsistence allowance during the period of suspension.

(v) The petitioner’s suspension is being revoked with direction to enter all the remarks in his service-book.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner, after being