JUDGMENT

A. K. SAMANTARAY, J. — In this writ petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India the petitioner chal¬lenges the rejection of his representation for withdrawal of voluntary retirement application and has come with the prayer for quashing the said order of rejection (Annexure-4) and the order of his relief from service (Annexure-7).

2. The factual backdrop leading to the filing of this writ petition is that the petitioner was appointed as Accounts Officer under Orissa State Road Transport Corporation, Bhubaneswar (O.P. No.1) on 4.2.1986 and in course of time he was promoted to the post of Accounts Officer, Class-II on 27.4.1993 and was again promoted to the post of Accounts Officer, Class-I with effect from 3.7.1998 and he also held the post of Financial Advisor and Chief Accounts Officer from 24.4.1996 to 18.9.1997 vide Govern¬ment of Orissa, Commerce & Transport Department Notification No. RT-IV-Corpn.49/96-12467/T dated 26.8.1996. In course of time, the Government of Orissa, in the Department of Public Enterprises (O.P. No.4) in its Resolution No.3165 dated 21.9.2001 introduced a Model Voluntary Retirement Scheme (hereinafter referred to as ‘Scheme’) f