NARASIMHAM, C. J.

( 1 ) THIS is an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution, challenging the validity of the order of dismissal from the Government service passed against the petitioner by the Government of Orissa in the Political and Services Department, by their order No. 309/t dated the 17th August, 1960.

( 2 ) THE petitioner was appointed as an Assist-, ant Conservator of Forests in 1951 and was posted as Divisional Forest Officer at Parlakhimedi from August 1953 till october 1955. Subsequently he was transferred to Angul as Assistant Conservator of Forests and suspended from Government service on the 31st August 1957 pending departmental enquiry against him regarding various acts of misconduct said to have been committed by him while serving as Divisional Forest Officer at parlakhimedi. His case was, in due course, referred to the Member, Administrative tribunal, Orissa (Sri V. S. Tilak, I. A. S.), who on the 2nd December. 1957 forwarded to the petitioner a copy of the charges framed against him. There were in all 21 charges dealing with criminal breach of trust and temporary misappropriation of Government money, falsification of vouchers and Government records with a