(1.) This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is filed by the petitioner being aggrieved of order of termination dtd. 28/3/2012 (Annexure P-2) vide which petitioner's services were dispensed with on finding the charges proved in Departmental Enquiry and he was accordingly, dismissed from service. This order was passed by the Divisional Forest Officer, North Betul (General) Forest Division, Betul (M.P.) on 28/3/2012 against which petitioner had preferred an appeal to the Chief Conservator of Forest which too came to be decided and dismissed vide order dtd. 5/3/2013 (Annexure P-1).
(2.) Shri A.S. Hussain, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was appointed as 'Beat Guard' vide order dtd. 5/3/2009. He was placed under suspension on 19/7/2010 and was terminated from service on 28/3/2012.
(3.) It is fairly submitted that he is only on the question of proportionality of punishment, inasmuch as, charges were found to be proved. He places reliance on a decision of a coordinate Bench of this Court at Gwalior in Ram Singh Gamad Vs. The State of Madhya Pradesh and others (Writ Petition No.4231 of 2007, decided on 14/9/2022), whereby the coordinate Bench of this Court quashed the order of punishment of termination and remanded the matter to the disciplinary authority to decide the question of punishment afresh.