JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Advocate assisted by Mr. Akshat Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Ms. Vasudha Singh, Brief Holder and Mr. Rajiv Srivastava, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State.

2. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a writ of certiorari quashing orders dated 7.11.2016 and 15.11.2016, passed by respondents 2 and 3, contained in Annexures 1 and 2 to the writ petition.

A further writ of mandamus commanding respondents to reinstate the petitioner in service along with all consequential benefits of service including arrears of salary as also payment of current salary along with other benefit of service has also been prayed.

3. Brief facts of the case are that in the year 2009-2010, when the petitioner was posted as Senior Clerk in the office of Civil Hospital, Lingiganj, Farrukhabad, he was placed under suspension vide order dated 22.1.2010 on the charge of financial irregularities by Director (Administration), Medical & Health Services, U.P. Lucknow. Disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the petitioner under the U.P. Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1999 (In short, Rules of 1999). A c