( 1 ) IN this case, the petitioner Ramchandra Gopalrao Munshi has moved this Court for a writ in the nature of certiorari to quash an order dated 30th July, 1954, passed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police. , Madhya Bharat, dismissing him from service.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the petitioner, he was appointed as a Sub-Inspector of Police in the then Ratlam State by the Ruler of that State by Dar-bar Order No. 9494 dated 31st December, 1945, and was in the service of that State on the date when the ratlam State merged in Madhya Bharat; that after the formation of Madhya Bharat and the merger therein of the Ratlam State, he was unpointed as a member of the madhya Bharat Police-Force, as by virtue of Ordinance No. 30 of 1948, issued by the Rajpramukh of Madhya Bharat, he was enlisted and enrolled as a Sub-Inspector and his name was included in the list of Sub-Inspectors prepared by the inspector General of Police of Madhya Bharat and published in the Madhya Bharat police Gazette dated 31st, August, 1950. The applicant further states that in April, 1953, he proceeded from village Ghatia to Sutarkhedi village for making arrangements to prevent an apprehended breach of peace be