By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for setting aside the order dated 06.12.2005 passed by the Disciplinary Authority imposing upon the petitioner a major penalty of reduction to the lowest of the time scale of pay in the initial grade of Tripura Health Service without a bar to his future promotion for a period of 3 years during which he will not earn any increment, and also the order dated 16.04.2007 whereby, the appeal preferred by the petitioner was treated as a review petition and ultimately the review authority rejected the same confirming the penalty imposed upon him.

2. Heard Mrs. P. Dhar, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as Mr. J. Majumder, learned counsel appearing for the State respondents.

3. The allegations against the petitioner are that the petitioner, a Medical Officer in the Tripura Health Services, while serving as a Medical Officer in the 1st BN. TSR, Gakulnagar, was asked to medically examine newly recruited 514 Nos. of 4th BN-TSR during the month of Sept.1997 and it was found that he declared 13 Nos. of Riflemen medically unfit for the job, who Subsequently, were found medically f