JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioner has assailed the order of compulsory retirement dated 05.05.2017 which has been imposed as a measure of punishment pursuant to the disciplinary proceedings initiated against him. The appeal preferred against the said order on 28.06.2017 has also been rejected vide order dated 26.07.2017. Both the orders i.e. 05.05.2017 and 26.07.2017 have been assailed in the present writ petition.

2. The facts of the case and brief are that the petitioner while working at the Cash Counter in the State Bank of India, Girijapuri Branch (hereinafter referred to as the Bank) was served with a charge sheet on 16.03.2005 where the allegation against him was that he had accepted an amount of 5000/- from one customer namely Raj Rs. 50/- from one customer namely Raj Narayan for depositing the same in his account No.5104. The petitioner discharging the duties of a Cashier accepted the said amount, and made an endorsement in the passbook of the customer but did not enter the said deposit, and no entries were made in Bank’s official records, and similarly another amount of 500 was Rs. 5000/- from one customer namely Raj accepted from a customer and not accounted by him in the Bank’s