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J. J. MUNIR
Raj Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of U. P. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
J.J. Munir, J.
1. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 12.10.2023, passed by the Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, Lucknow, punishing the petitioner with the award of a censure and withholding of three increments with cumulative effect. The order aforesaid has been made after departmental inquiry. Also under challenge is the charge-sheet dated 23.6.2022, on the foot of which the departmental inquiry has been held and the inquiry report dated 18.10.2022 submitted by the Inquiry Committee leading to the impugned order. The petitioner further claims a mandamus to the respondents, ordering them to pay his increments as well as arrears, worked out on that basis, together with interest, of which he has been deprived in consequence of the impugned order.
2. Shorn of unnecessary detail, the petitioner was initially appointed an Assistant Accountant through direct recruitment on 24.12.1992 in the service of the U.P. State Electricity Board, now the U.P. Power Corporation Limited. He has risen through the ranks to be promoted to the post of Accounts Officer, the position that he currently holds. He is scheduled to retire on 31.1.2025, upon
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