JUDGMENT :

Saurabh Lavania, J.

Heard Sri Y.K. Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Awadhesh Kumar Pal, learned counsel for the respondent No. 1 and Sri Balram Yadav, learned counsel for the respondent No. 2 to 4.

2. By means of the present writ petition, a challenge has been made to the order dated 05.09.2009, whereby the petitioner (now deceased) was dismissed from the services, passed by the respondent No. 2/Managing Director, U.P. Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank Limited.

3. The legal heirs of the petitioner, who expired on 27.08.2016, have been substituted in compliance of the order of this Court dated 05.01.2017.

4. Facts, in brief, of the present case are that the petitioner was appointed on Class IV post of Sahyogi in the Head Office of U.P. Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank Ltd. with the approval of the Institutional Service Board, Lucknow and thereafter, he joined the services on 31.07.1984. Thereafter, the petitioner was promoted in the year 1991 on the post of Assistant Field Officer and he was posted at Salon Branch of the Bank, District-Raebareli. Thereafter, the petitioner was reverted from the post of Assistant Filed Officer to the post of Sahyogi and the said reversion order was