JUDGMENT :

Heard the parties.

2. Petitioner has approached this Court with prayer for quashing the order of punishment dated 20.08.2021 by which the petitioner has been inflicted with punishment of one black mark and also for quashing the appellate order dated 26.11.2021, by which the Appellate Authority has affirmed the order of punishment.

3. The case of the petitioner lies in a narrow compass. In the year 2012, in terms of advertisement and after due selection process, the petitioner was initially appointed as Sub-Inspector of Police and accordingly, he joined the said post on 22.06.2012. While the petitioner was posted as Officer Incharge of Radha Nagar Police Station in the district of Sahibganj, on the basis of information received from the Forest Department, on 26.02.2021 during the patrolling at Balugram Kabristan, at 04:30 a.m. two trucks loaded with coal were seized and after preparation of the seizure report, it was sent to the Campus of the Police Station for security reasons. At the same time, it has been given information that another two trucks loaded with coal are unloading at Madarsa, South Piarpur and accordingly, at 05:00 a.m. the petitioner rushed to the place of