JUDGMENT :

The petitioner, a Class IV employee, a Peon in the Establishment of the District Treasury, Budaun, is aggrieved by an order dated 31.07.1993 passed by the District Magistrate, Budaun, terminating his services after disciplinary proceedings, and the appellate order dated 13.02.2014, passed by the Commissioner, Bareilly Division, Bareilly, dismissing his departmental appeal and affirming the order of the District Magistrate.

2. The petitioner was appointed as a Class IV employee (Peon) with the District Treasury, Budaun in the year 1975 by the District Magistrate, Budaun. He was, later on, confirmed in service. Upon the establishment of a sub-treasury at Ujhani, District Budaun, the petitioner was transferred from headquarters to the sub-treasury at Ujhani on 09.12.1989. It is the petitioner’s case that after rendering a few years of service at Ujhani, the Sub Treasury Officer[‘STO’ for short] passed an order dated 08.11.1991, providing that the petitioner will discharge all duties at the sub-treasury relating to drawing up of accounts, pension vouchers, clearance of bills, all of which he would do as in the past, under the STO’s oral directions. The petitioner says he was a