By the Court.—We have heard Shri Ashok Khare, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Siddharth Khare for the petitioner. Shri A.B. Saran, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Maneesh Mehrotra appears for the respondents.

2. This writ petition is directed against the orders dated 22.8.2008 passed by the Deputy General Manager/Disciplinary Authority, Indian Overseas Bank, Central Office, Chennai, awarding the penalty of ‘dismissal’ in terms of Regulation 4 (j) of Indian Overseas Bank Officer Employees’ (Discipline & Appeal) Regulations, 1976 (in short, the Regulations of 1976), with a further order that the period spent by him under suspension shall not be treated as one spent on duty and which will not be counted for monetary or any other benefits other than subsistence allowance already paid to him; and the appellate order in respect of the charge sheet issued on 17.8.2008 and various supplementary appeals filed against the order of the Disciplinary Authority dated 22.8.2008, by which the appeal was dismissed. The petitioner has also prayed for a direction to reinstate him in service with all consequential benefits, continuity in service, seniority and arrears of salary for the suspe