By the Court.—Heard Mr.Sandeep Dixit, learned Counsel for the petitioner, Mr.I. B. Singh, Senior Advocate duly assisted by Mr.Krishna Kumar Singh, learned Counsel for the contesting opposite parties.

2. Aggrieved by the order of dismissal dated 1.5.2001, the petitioner has filed the instant writ petition primarily on the ground that the impugned order of dismissal is wholly illegal and unjust as the disciplinary proceedings have been conducted in utter disregard to the principles of natural justice; the necessary documents which were utilized against the petitioner by the inquiry officer were not supplied despite specific requests, opportunity to cross-examination was denied and lastly the copy of the enquiry report was not furnished alongwith show-cause notice which vitiates the impugned order. The other ground is that he has been subjected to hostile discrimination in the matter of inflicting punishment as the Enquiry Officer has held all the members of the Committee to be equally and jointly responsible.

3. Factual matrix of the case, which necessitated filing of instant writ is that the petitioner being eligible and successful was appointed as General Manager, Kisan Co-