This Writ Petition has been filed to quash the order of punishment of removal from service passed against the Petitioner by Secretary to Government, Home (Police 1A) Department, Fort St. George, Chennai, the Respondent herein and to grant him all consequential monetary and other reliefs.

2. According to the Petitioner, he was directly recruited as Sub-Inspector of Police in the year 1965 and he was promoted as Inspector of Police in the year 1974. Thereafter, in the year 1987, he was further promoted to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police and then Additional Superintendent of Police in the year 1988. He was due for superannuation on 31.01.2002, but he was not allowed to retire from service and placed under suspension pending disciplinary proceedings issued in RC.No.279602/Cr.I(2)/99 dated 14.01.2000. It is the case of the Petitioner that during the course of his service, he received 200 medals and rewards and had never come to the adverse notice of the superior officials. That being the position, while he was serving as Assistant Commissioner of Police in Coimbatore, a case was registered in All Women Police Station, Coimbatore in Crime No.81/95 for suspicious d