JUDGMENT :

J.J. MUNIR, J.

1. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 24.01.2023 passed by the Chairman, U.P. Power Corporation Limited, Lucknow, revising the order of the Disciplinary Authority suo motu, enhancing the penalty and punishing the petitioner with demotion to the post of a Junior Engineer. Also under challenge is the order dated 28.05.2022 passed by the Managing Director, U.P. Power Corporation Limited, Lucknow, the Disciplinary Authority, punishing the petitioner, after disciplinary proceedings, with the award of a censure and stopping one increment with cumulative effect.

2. The facts giving rise to this petition are these:

The petitioner was a Junior Engineer in the service of the U.P. Power Corporation Limited. He was appointed as such in the year 2007. He was promoted to the post of an Assistant Engineer in the year 2014. After suffering the orders inflicting penalty, the petitioner is working as a Junior Engineer (Meter) with the Electricity Test Division, Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, Pratapgarh. The charge, in relation to which disciplinary proceedings were drawn against the petitioner, relates to the time when he was posted as an Assistant