The petitioner was recruited into the Madras Subordinate Police Service as Sub-Inspector of Police on 13th October, 1942, and had been functioning as such from that date. From 10th May, 1951, he had been in charge of the Rasoolpet Police station, Guntur District, when, on the 13th March, 1952, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Guntur, served on him an order at 6-45 p.m., that under the orders of the District Superintendent of Police, Guntur, he was relieving the petitioner of the charge from the station forthwith, with the result that the petitioner was directed to hand over charge at once to another Sub-Inspector. Two days later, this was followed up by an order from the District Superintendent of Police containing the statement that there was evidence that the petitioner as Sub-Inspector of Rasoolpet station has been receiving illegal gratification from the public and that there was definite information that he has received illegal gratification from four persons of Guntur town. It was further stated that the petitioner had sent a letter to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Northern Range, Masulipatam, on an inland postal cover with something written in Tamil of w