1. The brief facts necessary for adjudication of this matter are as under:

The petitioner who was a Constable in Railway Protection Force was subjected to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to the issuance of charge-sheet (Annexure P-1) dated 9.2.1993. The said charge-sheet was followed by departmental enquiry. After the enquiry a punishment of removal from service was inflicted on the petitioner by order dated 25.2.1994. The petitioner feeling aggrieved by the aforesaid punishment order, preferred an appeal before the statutory appellate authority. However, the said appellate authority did not decide the appeal preferred by the petitioner. At this stage, petitioner filed a writ petition before the Allahabad High Court. The Allahabad High Court passed the order in Writ Petition No.14226/94 on 25.1.2005 (page 77). A perusal of the order of the High Court shows that this was an admitted position between the parties that enquiry officer’s report was not supplied to the petitioner before imposition of punishment of removal. However, the High Court did not deal with the merits of the matter and relegated the petitioner to avail statutory remedy of revision by preferring a revision pe