By the Court.—Heard Shri Asit Kumar Chaturvedi, learned Senior Advocate, assisted by Shri Dharmendra Kumar Dixit, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing for the State-respondents.

2. Causes of action in this writ petition are so mixed up that ordinarily the instant writ petition would have been dismissed for misjoinder of cause of action, however, considering the fact that the writ petition is pending since the year 2003 and a counter-affidavit not only to the writ petition but to the amended writ petition has also been filed by the State-respondents, the Court proceeds to decide the writ petition on its merit.

3. In fact, challenge in this writ petition was initially made to the punishment orders and consequential orders passed in respect of two departmental proceedings, which the petitioner was subjected to. The first departmental proceedings was initiated against the petitioner by issuing a charge-sheet dated 3.9.1998 pertaining to the alleged irregularities committed by the petitioner during her service period in the years 1992-1993 and 1995-1998. The said departmental proceedings culminated in the punishment order dated 24.5