GOVIND NARAYAN SHUKLA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner was appointed as a Clerk in the District Cooperative Federation Ltd., Kanpur Nagar in the year 1972. Thereafter in the year 2002 he was instructed to run Wheat Purchase Centre at Rampur in Kanpur Nagar. On certain irregularities having been found in the working of the petitioner, the respondent No. 5, Sushil Kumar Tiwari, who was the Incharge Secretary of the District Co-operative Federation Ltd., Kanpur Nagar, passed order of dismissal of the petitioner on 20.5.2003. Aggrieved by the said order the petitioner has filed this writ petition for quashing the dismissal order dated 20.5.2003 as well as for a direction to the respondents to treat the petitioner in service and pay him his salary month by month and also arrears of salary with effect from 1.1.1993.

(2.) I have heard Sri M. P. Gupta, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri Ashok Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel appearing for the contesting respondent-District Co-operative Federation and have perused the record.

(3.) The main grounds raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner challenging the impugned order can be summarized as under :