By the Court.—Heard Sri Ramesh Singh, learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel.

2. The instant writ petition arises out of the judgment and order dated dated 9.3.2017 passed by the Uttar Pradesh Public Services Tribunal (in short referred to as “the Tribunal”) in Claim Petition No. 1662 of 2016 (Masood Asghar v. State of Uttar Pradesh and others), whereby the claim petition of the petitioner has been dismissed by the Tribunal affirming the order of punishment dated 20.8.2015 passed by the Superintendent of Police, Barabanki and the appellate order dated 18.1.2016 passed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Faizabad Range, Faizabad.

3. Submission of learned Counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is a Head Constable in Civil Police (Promotional Pay Scale),who was subjected to departmental proceeding under the provisions of Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Police Officers (Punishment & Appeal) Rules, 1991 (in short “1991 Rules”). In the preliminary inquiry, the petitioner was allegedly found guilty for not not showing respect to public representative i.e.Mr. Rakesh Pratap Singh (MLA) and having spoke to media persons.

4. Learne