O. N. KHANDELWAL, J.

( 1 ) THE services of the petitioner (who was employee in the Collectorate, Etah) were terminated by the District Magistrate vide order dated 29. 5. 1998 (Annexure 15 to the writ petition ). The appeal preferred against that order was dismissed by the Commissioner Agra Mandal, Agra on 29. 11. 1998 (Annexure 17 to the writ petition) and the claim petition No. 458 of 1999 filed by the petitioner before the State Public Services Tribunal was also dismissed by the impugned order dated 5. 8. 2001 (Annexure 21 to the writ petition ). All these orders have been assailed before this court by means of this writ petition.

( 2 ) PETITIONER was initially appointed on 24. 6. 1976 as Assistant Nanir Waki Navis in Tehsil kashganj District Etah and was posted as Arms clerk I on 24. 12. 1996 in the Collectorate. One sri Hari Ram Rana a B. S. P. worker made a complaint to the District Magistrate that arms licences are being issued illegally in connivance with the Arms clerk. A preliminary enquiry was conducted by Jagdish Sharma, Dy. S. P. Aligarh, who in his report dated 3. 10. 1997 came to the conclusion that the licences issued were genuine but licence holders were fake. Theref

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