MAYANK BABU AGRAWAL Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Sri Ashok Mehta, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Pradeep Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

(2.) The facts giving rise to the instant writ petition, briefly stated, is that petitioner came to be appointed on compassionate ground on the post of Junior Assistant Clerk on 3 July 1990. Petitioner was dismissed vide order dated 30 March 1999, passed by the second respondent-Disciplinary Authority/Joint Development Commissioner, Allahabad. The order of dismissal was subjected to challenge in a petition being Writ-A No.15413 of 1999. The writ petition came to be allowed on the ground that the principles of natural justice was flouted with impunity. The operative portion of order dated 21 November 2017, reads thus:

(3.) The order of the learned Single Judge came to be assailed by the second respondent in appeal being Special Appeal No.84 of 2018. The appellate Court modified the operative portion of the order, which reads thus: