JUDGMENT :

J.J. MUNIR, J.

1. This writ petition is directed against an order of dismissal from service and recovery of the price of wheat said to be embezzled by the petitioner. This order has been made against the petitioner by the Executive Director, U.P. Rajya Karamchari Kalyan Nigam, Lucknow on 22.09.2020 and shall hereinafter be referred to as the impugned order.

2. The petitioner was a Centre Superintendent in the employ of the U.P. Rajya Karamchari Kalyan Nigam, Lucknow (for short ‘the Corporation’). He was appointed a Centre Superintendent at the Wheat Purchase Centre, Vijay Nagla, District Badaun in the month of March, 2018. The petitioner was transferred from District Badaun to District Agra on 13.07.2018. On 16th of July, 2018 in a quick movement of events, the petitioner was transferred from District Agra to District Sambhal and posted as a Salesman/Accounts Clerk by the Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh State Food and Essential Commodities Corporation Limited, Lucknow. The petitioner joined the station of transfer on 16.07.2018. On 24th July, 2019, a little over a year after his preceding transfer to Sambhal, the petitioner was transferred back to District Agra, where he j