JUDGMENT

(Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for the issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records relating to the orders in (1) Pro.Na.Ka.No.6725/05/J1(4) dated 16.08.2010 of the second respondent and (2) G.O.Ms.No.56, Tamil Development, Religious Endowments and Information (RE2-1) Department, of the first respondent dated 13.02.2013 to quash the said orders and to issue consequential directions to the respondents to declare that the petitioner shall be deemed to have retired from service on 30.06.2013 with all consequential retirement and pensionary benefits and disburse those benefits with interest for the delay.)

The order of dismissal from service is under challenge in the present writ petition. A consequential direction is sought for to declare that the petitioner shall be deemed to have retired from service on 30.06.2013 with all retirement and pensionary benefits.

2. The writ petitioner joined as Junior Assistant on 22.02.1984 in the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department and promoted to the post of Assistant in the year 1994. The departmental disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the