(1.) ORDERS dated 29.6.2001 and 24.4.2004 are being assailed vide this writ petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India.
(2.) VIDE order dated 29.6.2001, the petitioner, an Executive Engineer (T & D), Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board having held guilty in a departmental enquiry on a charge sheet dated 22.3.1996 has been inflicted with the penalty of reduction to lower stage of pay of Rs.12,000/ p.m.; (i.e. reducing two increments) for a period of two years with further direction that during this period, he will not earn any annual grade increment and on expiry of said period, it will have the effect of postponement of further increment of pay, i.e., only after expiry of two years period, he will start earning his increment from the reduced lower stage of pay. [In respect of charge sheet (supplementary) dated 4.1.2000 the petitioner was given the warning that he should be more careful in discharging assigned duties in future. The petitioner, however, does not question the penalty of warning and confine his challenge to the punishment for the charges levelled vide charge sheet dated 22.3.1996.) The order of punishment was affirmed in appeal preferred by the petitioner which was dismissed on 24.4.2004.
(3.) IN the departmental enquiry charges 1, 2, 5 and 7 were fully proved, charges 4 and 6 were partially proved; whereas, charges 3, 8 and 9 were not proved.