The State owned Transport Corporation is the appellant. The challenge is to the order of the learned single Judge dated 30.11.2001 passed in W.A. No.12709 of 1994. The respondent preferred the above writ petition challenging the order of the appellant dated 26. 1994, in and by which the appellant ordered for recovery of a sum of Rs.13,400/-in forty-eight installments from the salary payable to the respondent from the month of July 1991. The said sum of Rs.13,400/-was arrived at towards the value of the unused ticket contained in two ticket books issued to the respondent, while he was assigned the duty of Conductor in the appellant Corporation vehicle plying between Madurai and Coimbatore. The brief facts which resulted in the issuance of the above order of punishment dated 26. 1994 was that the respondent was assigned the duty of Conductor on 24. 1992 in the bus running between Madurai and Coimbatore. On that day, when the bus left Palani at 4.30 a.m., he was entrusted with three ticked books. It is stated that while he was in the process of issuing tickets on 24. 1992 in the first trip between Palani and Madurai, he noticed that two unused ticket books kept in his person