ORDER :

The lis on hand has been instituted questioning the validity of the penalty of compulsory retirement imposed on the petitioner.

2. The petitioner was appointed as Grade-II Woman Police Constable on 14.04.1981. She was upgraded as Grade-I Police Constable and further promoted as Head Constable in June 1996 and as Sub-Inspector of Police on 19.01.2004. A charge memo was issued to the writ petitioner on 07.03.2012 under Rule 3(b) of the Tamil Nadu Police Subordinate Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1955 in PR No.40 of 2012. The charge against the writ petitioner was that while she was working as Station In-charge at Kallikudi Police Station, she was instructed to hand over the gold jewelleries to the Magistrate Court in Crime No.163 of 2011 registered under Sections 147, 148, 353, 307 IPC read with Section 25 Clause 1 of the Arms Act. The petitioner received the gold jewelleries with the approval under Form 91 from the Inspector of Police. She had not made entries in the Case Property Registers, General Notes and Para Book and committed an act of delay in handing over