JUDGMENT

Dr. A.K. RATH, J. - By this application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed inter alia to quash the charges framed by the disciplinary authority vide Annexure-6 and the show cause notice dated 24.4.2004 issued by the Registrar, Sambalpur University vide Annexure-14 for imposing punishment of dismissal.

02. Sans details, the case of the petitioner was that he was appointed as Lecturer in Physics in Sambalpur University (in short, “University”) during September, 1979. He was promoted to the post of Reader in the year 1993. There was no blemish in his service career. While the matter stood thus, Miss Alekhika Pani was appointed as Junior Research Fellow on 14.8.2002 in the Department of Physics by the Vice-Chancellor of the University. Miss Pani was not sincere. She was cautioned time and again to be sincere with her research work. As a Post Graduate student for the academic session 1998-2000, she had the acquaintance with him. She had cooperated and participated in the research work. As a project leader, it was the bounden duty of the petitioner to see, remind, reprimand the persons those who were working in the project in order to have