KRISHNA KANT SHUKLA Vs. DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Petitioner is a member of the U.P. Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies Centralised Service created under Section 122 -A of the U.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1965 and his services are governed by the rules, known as the U.P. Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies Centralised Service Rules, 1976, (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as "the Rules") and the U.P. Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies (Centralised Service) Regulations, 1978 framed there under (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as "the Regulations"). Petitioner while working as Secretary in Sadhan Sahkarak Samiti Limited, Upraura, was suspended, vide order dated 20 -12 -1991, by the Member Secretary, District Committee, constituted under the Rules. This order of suspension is the subject matter of challenge by means of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

(2.) PETITIONER has been suspended by the Member Secretary, District Committee, in exercise of power under Clause (v) of Rule 14 of the Rules, which is as extracted below:

(3.) THE Constitution of the District Committee, as existed originally, was as depicted below;