Hon’ble P.K.S. Baghel, J.—The petitioner is a Junior Engineer. He has filed this writ petition aggrieved by the order of the Director/Chief Engineer, Rural Engineering Services, dated 8.1.2008 whereby punishment of the recovery of an amount of Rs. 56,526.87, withholding of two annual increments and making two censured entries have been made. His appeal has also been rejected by the Principal Secretary. Both the orders impugned have been annexed as Annexures-1 and 2 respectively.

2. The short facts leading to the present writ petition are the petitioner was initially appointed as Junior Engineer in Rural Engineering Services, in November 1987. While he was posted as Junior Engineer at Siddartha Nagar in the year 2003 he was subjected to disciplinary proceedings. The disciplinary proceedings were initiated in terms of the U.P. Government Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as 1999 Rules). A charge-sheet was issued to him on 14.7.2004 (A copy of which is annexed as Annexure-3 to the writ petition) wherein one of the charge was that on 10.12.2002 the petitioner deposited 80 drums Bitumen on the main road adjoining the Central Stores, Siddartha