JUDGMENT :

Heard the parties.

Prayers made

2. By way of present writ petition, petitioner has thrown challenge to the order of punishment dated 01.12.2015, by which he has been dismissed from services and further for quashing the appellate order dated 15.02.2016, by which the appeal preferred by the petitioner against the order of punishment has been dismissed.

Petitioner has further prayed for direction upon the respondents to reinstate him to the post of Staff Officer, treating the period of dismissal as continuance in service.

Factual Matrix

3. As per the factual matrix, while the petitioner was posted as Credit Officer at Ranchi Main Branch of Jharkhand Gramin Bank, an FIR was lodged by one Sri Pradeep Kumar, the then Manager of Ranchi Branch of respondent-Bank stating therein that during his Inter Branch Reconciliation, it came to his notice that a fake transaction of Rs.7,46,500/- had been done in Ranchi Branch of the respondent-Bank. On the basis of the said complaint, an FIR being Chutia P.S. Case No. 38/13 was registered against three accused persons namely, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Arjun Thakur and Aman Anand. It is the case of the petitioner that in the said FIR, he was not made ac