( 1 ) THIS is an application of one Jayanti Prasad Srivastava, an employee in the Civil Supplies department of the State of Uttar Pradesh, for the issue of a writ of mandamus directing the State of Uttar Pradesh, the District Magistrate of Mirzapur and the District Supply Officer of mirzapur, not to terminate the services of the applicant without complying with Article 311, sub-clause (2) of the Constitution of India, and praying further that the notice of termination of service dated 26th April 1951 given by the District Magistrate, Mirzapur, be declared to be inoperative and bad in law. The facts disclosed in the affidavit submitted along with the application are as follows.

( 2 ) THE applicant is employed as supply inspector in the District Supply Office at Mirzapur. On the 24th April 1951, the Honble Sri Chandra Bhan Gupta, Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, state of Uttar Pradesh visited the district of Mirzapur. At the instance of the said Minister, the applicant was served with a notice dated the 26th April 1951, under the signature of the District magistrate, Mirzapur, notifying that the applicants services were to be terminated on the expiry of one months n