The petitioner had approached the Tamil Nadu State Administrative Tribunal, Chennai by filing O.A.No.1102 of 1997, questioning the order passed by the Appellate Authority dated 12.06.1996 confirming the order of removal passed by the Original Authority dated 04.01.1996. The said Original Application had been transferred to the file of this Court and renumbered as W.P.No.21794 of 2006.

2. The short facts which led the petitioner to approach the Tamil Nadu State Administrative Tribunal are set out hereunder:

The petitioner was initially selected to the post of Junior Assistant under Rule 10(a)(1) of the Tamil Nadu State and Subordinate Service Rules on compassionate grounds and he was posted on appointment at the Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital, Salem in the vacancy caused by one P.Subramaniam, on his promotion to the post of Assistant. The petitioner was appointed to the said post by an order of the second respondent dated 15.06.1992 and he joined service on 22.06.1992. He was placed under suspension by an order dated 03.08.1995 for the reason that he had misappropriated a sum of Rs.1,879/-collected by him in the Hospital Stoppage Section on behalf of the th