JUDGMENT

Prem Prakash, J. - By this petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution, which has been referred to a larger Bench by a learned Single Judge of this Court, the petitioner challenges an order of termination of his services (Annexure 5-A) by the Deputy Managing Director of the U. P. State Ware-Housing Corporation.

2. Shortly stated, the material facts underlying the controversy are these. The petitioner was a routine clerk employed in the State Ware-Housing Corporation, a statutory corporate body created under Section 18(1) of the Ware-Housing Corporation Act (to be hereinafter referred as the Act), established for the purpose of ware-housing of agricultural produce and certain other commodities and for matters connected therewith. The general superintendence and management of the affairs of the State Ware-housing Corporation vests in a Board of Directors which, amongst other Directors, consists of a Managing Director appointed by the Government in consultation with the Directors and with the previous approval of the Central Warehousing Corporation may entrust or delegate to him the Board of Directors is required to act on business principles having regard to public interest a