ORDER :

S.M. Subramaniam J.

(Prayer: Writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records on the file of the respondent relating to the impugned proceedings in Roc.No.133/2014/VC/B2, dated 30.12.2019 and quash the same as illegal and incompetent, non-est in law and without jurisdiction and consequently direct the respondent to grant all monetary and service benefits to the petitioner.)

1. Writ petition has been instituted challenging the punishment of withholding of five increments with cumulative effect imposed on the petitioner vide proceeding dated 30.12.2019 by the respondent.

2. The petitioner was appointed as Civil Judge in the year 2003. She was promoted as Senior Civil Judge in the year 2014. The departmental disciplinary proceeding was initiated against the writ petitioner based on the complaint given by Thiru Mohammed Nazeer Ahmad, Director of M/s. EMM Yen Infomesh Business Solution Private Limited, who is an accused in C.C.No.2448 of 2009, on the file of the VIII-Metropolitan Magistrate, George Town, Chennai. The petitioner submitted a detailed explanation denying the allegations