P CHITHAMBARAM Vs. MANAGING DIRECTOR TAFCORN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) MR. R. Janakiramulu, learned standing counsel takes notice for the respondents. By mutual consent of the learned counsel on either side, this writ petition is taken up for final disposal at the admission stage.

(2.) THE petitioner has come forward with this petition seeking for the relief of quashing the impugned order of the second respondent made in Ref No. 4155/2009/E dated 31.08.2009.3.1. Mr. T.S. Mohamed Mohideen, learned counsel for the petitioner contended that the petitioner has challenged the impugned order of suspension on two grounds, viz., (i) he has been suspended on the ground of his implication in a criminal case for the alleged offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act vide the impugned order passed by Regional Manager, who himself has been implicated as one of the accused (A1) in the very same case and as such the impugned order is unsustainable and (ii) the first accused, who has passed the impugned order of suspension against the petitioner, is not yet suspended on the basis of his implication in the very same criminal case for the alleged offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act and as such the impugned order would amount to selective suspension order and the same is unsustainable.3.