JUDGMENT : 

Challenging the order-dated 8.11.2005 Annexure P/1, whereby the appeal filed by the petitioner under Rule 23 of the M.P. Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1966 has been rejected, petitioner has filed this writ petition. Challenge is also made to the order of punishment dated 20.7.2001 Annexure P/2, by which penalty of compulsory retirement, confirmation of the period of suspension and recovery of Rs.1,19,796=50 has been ordered against the petitioner.

2. Records indicate that petitioner was holding the post of Accountant in the office of Divisional Ayurveda Officer, Rewa. On 4.7.1989, while working as Accountant, the Drawing and Disbursing Officer, one Shri Ram Sharan Shrivastava, is alleged to have directed the petitioner and one cashier Shri Rampal Pandey, to go to the bank and withdraw a sum of Rs.2,39,593=00. Petitioner is said to have gone to the Bank and while returning from the Bank it seems that the aforesaid amount was looted by certain unsocial elements from the scooter in which the petitioner and Shri Rampal Pandey were travelling, as a result of the aforesaid petitioner was suspended, a charge-sheet was issued to him and after enquiry

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