COMMON ORDER

These two writ petitions have been filed for issuance of Writ of Certiorari to quash the proceedings of the first respondent in Letter No.12492/E2/2018-06, dated 07.10.2021 and Letter No.3975/A2/2020-07, dated 07.10.2021.

2. According to the writ petitioner, he was appointed as Assistant Commercial Tax Officer and he was retired from service on superannuation on 31.10.2014 as Joint Commissioner. He was suspended from service on the basis of charge memo framed under Rule 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules. The 3rd respondent/Enquiry Officer has conducted an enquiry and submitted the enquiry report to the 1st respondent on 11.03.2016.. According to the petitioner, the vigilance enquiry was dropped against the petitioner by proceedings dated 28.09.2016, on the basis that there is no evidence. Therefore, the 1st respondent has framed a fresh charge memo on 14.07.2017, on the basis of alleged deficiencies in inspections conducted in the premises of 11 dealers by the petitioner's subordinates. The petitioner submitted his objection for the aforesaid charge memo on 11.08.2017 and he has also submitted his further objection on 23.10.2017. The 4t