JUDGMENT :

Susanta Chatterji, J. - The writ petitioner challenges the order of his termination from service made by opposite party No. 3, the Managing Director, S.N. Corporation Limited, a joint sector subsidiary unit of the Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa Limited (for short 'IDCOL'), which is a Government of Orissa Undertaking. The Chairman of IDCOL is the ex-officio Chairman of the Corporation. The opposite party-Corporation is directly managed under the control of IDCOL. The Corporation has set up a factory at Dhenkanal which manufactures high tensile fasteners . The petitioner had been appointed in the Corporation as an Accountant by order dated July 9, 1982 of the Managing Director and since the date of his joining the Corporation he had been discharging his duties on successful completion of the period of probation. Subsequently he had been designated as Accountant-B and then as Chief Accountant-C. He had also been placed as Chief Accountant- A. The petitioner was then promoted to the post of Deputy Manager (Accounts) on and from December 1, 1990.

2. It is contended that without assigning any reason, opposite party No. 3 arbitrarily terminated the service of the pe