ABDUL HAMID Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY the present writ petition the petitioner has inter alia prayed for a writ in the nature of Mandamus commanding the respondents to cancel and withdraw the order dated January 13, 2009 issued by the office of the respondent no. 2, for compensation and for other reliefs.

(2.) THE petitioner was appointed as a Constable Driver under the Border Security Force (BSF, for short) in the year 1988. While posted at 89 Battalion in North Bengal he was asked to perform the outpost duty and was in fact posted at Gate No. 2 for performing the outpost duty on September 8, 2007.

(3.) AFTER the evidence was taken the Summary Security Force Court (SSFC, for short) by an order dated March 1, 2008 found the petitioner guilty and awarded an order of demotion to the rank of Constable and passed an order of punishment of 89 days ' of rigorous imprisonment in force custody.