RAMESH CHANDRA GUPTA Vs. EXECUTIVE ENGINEER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) -Heard the learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

(2.) THE brief facts of the case giving rise to the writ petition are that in the year 1975, the petitioner was posted as store-keeper in the office of Sub-Divisional Officer, Electricity Transmission Construction, Sub-Division, Muzaffarnagar. He was incharge of the store.

(3.) A preliminary enquiry in the aforesaid matter was conducted by one Shri N. P. Singh Katara, Sub-Divisional Officer, Electricity Transmission Construction, Sub-Division Muzaffarnagar who submitted a report on 28.6.1975 (Annexure-7 to the counter-affidavit). In the preliminary enquiry, a categorical conclusion was arrived at that the theft was committed by a non-technical man and an outsider. From the said report, it is also clear that some aspersions were made on the chowkidar Girish Chandra that if he had used a bit of intelligence, the theft could have been avoided.