JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioner is an Executive Engineer in the employ of the Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd., Meerut and functioning under the overall control of the U.P. Power Corporation Limited, Lucknow. The petitioner is currently posted as an Executive Engineer with the Electricity Distribution Division-IV, Ghaziabad and says that he has an excellent service record. The petitioner was appointed an Assistant Engineer on 16.06.2012 and posted as SDO (T) at Banda on 16.06.2012. He worked there upto 31.05.2017. After a posting at Panki Sub-Station from 01.06.2017 to 05.10.2017, he was promoted to the post of an Executive Engineer on 06.10.2017. Upon promotion, the petitioner was posted as the Executive Engineer, Headquarters, Meerut on 13.12.2017. The petitioner was assigned to the Meter Department as Executive Engineer (Meter) at Saharanpur Zone from 13.12.2017 to 26.01.2018. He was transferred to the Electricity Distribution Division-I, Baghpat on 26.01.2018. The petitioner held administrative powers and had to look after the financial matters there.

2. It is the petitioner's case that in the Finance Department, he had the assistance of a number of ministerial functionaries,