ORDER :

PRAYER: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records pertaining to the order passed by the 1st respondent in G.O.(D) No.22, Tourism, Culture and Religious Endowments Department, dated 24.02.2014 and quash the same and direct the respondents to confer all the consequential benefits.

The petitioner herein had been recruited by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) and appointed as Junior Assistant in the respondents Department in the year 1970 and was later promoted to the cadres of Assistant and Superintendent. During his tenure of service as Superintendent on deputation in Arulmigu Subramanisami Thirukoil, Thiruchenthur, he was implicated for three charges of misconducts under Rule 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Service (Discipline and Appeal) Rules (hereinafter referred to as 'the Rules'), through a charge memo dated 17.09.2007, alleging that he had placed orders of photo pictures, dollars and key chains from Madurai Jayalakshmi Photos for sale by the temple at the cost of Rs.15,00,000/- and had received forged quotations, by deliberately flouting and violating the te