By the Court.—Heard Mr.Kapil Deo, Senior Advocate duly assisted by Mr.Ashwani Kumar, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Lalit Shukla, Advocate appearing for the respondent-Bank.

2. Petitioner, who was working as Staff Officer MM-III in the Bank of India, was dismissed from the service, has filed the instant writ petition questioning the validity and correctness of the dismissal order dated 25.6.2010, appellate order dated 16.9.2010, forfeiture and recovery order dated 6.8.2010 including the order dated 22.9.2010 passed on the application, contained in Annexures 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the writ petition.

3. Bereft of unnecessary details, in short, facts of the case are that during the period 24.5.2005 to 23.5.2007, when the petitioner was posted as Chief Manager, Bank of India, Rudauli Branch, the Branch received a loan application from one Rajesh Singh for setting up a rice mill in the name of M/s Singh Rice Mill in the month of December, 2005. The loan was proposed to be secured by mortgage of land of Khasra Nos. 2600 and 2656, which was in the name of the proposed Guarantor Shri Tej Bhan Singh whereas the rice mill was proposed to be set up on a separate land, namely, kha