S.M.SUBRAMANIAM, J. The punishment of dismissal from service issued vide G.O.(2D) No.239, Home (Courts~I) Department, dated 05.10.2020, is under challenge in the present writ petition. 2. The petitioner was appointed as Civil Judge (Junior Division) in Tamil Nadu Judicial Service on 12.02.2009. She was serving as District Munsif~cum~Judicial Magistrate at Thenganikottai during the year 2015. A charge memorandum was issued under Rule 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules on 02.06.2017 framing 13 charges against the petitioner. They are:~ “CHARGE No.1 That you, Tmt. Savithiri, Civil Judge of Tamil Nadu State Judicial Services, (now under suspension) while functioning as District Munsif cum Judicial Magistrate, Denkanikottai, though on 09.10.2015 remanded the two accused by name Balamurugan son of Raji and Krishnamoorthy son of Raji in Crl.No. 194/2015 of Anchetty Police Station, had allowed them to go scot free without remand and that having very well known that those accused were not at all in judicial custody, you ordered bail on 12.10.2015 in Crl.M.P.No.2382 of 2015, as if those accused were in Judicial custody, thereby you violated t