(1.) Heard Mr. Santosh Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner, as well as Mr. Q.H. Rizvi, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State.
(2.) In a departmental inquiry, the petitioner was found guilty of misconduct and vide order dated 11.08.2016 issued from the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, the petitioner was dismissed from service. Aggrieved by the order, by means of this writ petition filed under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned punishment order dated 11.08.2016 and also quashing all the departmental proceedings and with further prayer to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to reinstate the petitioner into service forthwith with all consequential benefits.
(3.) Brief facts giving rise to filing of the present writ petition are that the petitioner was initially appointed in the year 1982 as a Range Forest Officer. During the posting as Range Forest Officer, Range Hathras, a Committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of the petitioner for verification of 14 labourers and the petitioner was directed to verify the same from the records, the petitioner verified it but later on it was found in the inquiry that the verification made by the petitioner was not correct and some wrong entries were entered into the relevant registers by erasing the name of some labourers and including the name of others and in departmental inquiry he was found guilty for all these charges and was punished vide order dated 30.06.2016.