ORDER :

1. Assailing the order of punishment imposed by the disciplinary authority and as confirmed by the appellate authority and affirmed by the court below, imposing the punishment of removal from service on the petitioner, the present petition has been filed.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that he was working in the 2^nd respondent bank as Note-Stitching Machine Operator in the cash department While being so employed, on 3.5.2002, the cashier reported the missing of two pieces of one hundred rupee notes from a fresh denomination note packet and, thereafter, claimed that two one hundred rupee notes, each from two packets were missing from a fresh denomination note packet. It is further averred that the cashier reported the missing of cash to the higher officials and the higher officials came to the spot and searched the petitioner and from a polythene bag, which was kept near an unmanned counter, which is alleged to have been kept by the petitioner, retrieved 100 rupee note and another one piece of One Hundred rupee note was retrieved from the packet of the petitioner, which, according to the petitioner was the note obtained by the petitioner from the Teller in exchange of oth