Nainar Sundaram, J.

1. This Writ Appeal is directed against the order of the learned single Judge in W.P.No. 4775 of 1979. The appellant herein was the petitioner in the writ petition. The respondents herein were the respondents in the writ petition. We shall refer to the parties as per their array in the Writ Petition.

2. The petitioner was a Development Officer in the employ of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, hereinafter referred to as the Corporation, and while he was functioning in Namakkal Taluk, it transpired during the claim of investigation of life policy on the life of Kalianna Goundar of Peramandampalayam village, Namakkal Taluk, that the claim was not a genuine one and hence the case was referred to Special Police Establishment/Central Bureau of Investigation, Madras, for a more detailed investigation. The first information report was filed on 18.7.1974 in which the petitioner was shown as the first accused. He, along with others, was found to have had been instrumental in getting the concerned policy issued by the first-respondent in the year 1972; and making a fraudulent claim on the basis that the said policy holder died on 27.1.1973. The fact that tran