(1.) The petitioner was appointed as a Cadet Sub-Inspector of Police on 3-1-1949. He was the officer-in-charge of Balikuda Police Station in the district of Cuttack from 1957 to 1959. For certain misconduct committed during these years a disciplinary proceeding was started against him in 1962 while he was acting as the Court Sub-Inspector at Jajpur. The enquiry was conducted by the Additional Superintendent of Police, Cuttack. Sarbasri R. K. Pariksha, M. Satpathi and S. C. Misra, Additional Superintendents of Police, conducted the enquiry respectively for the periods 21-4-1962 to 21-11-1962, 21-11-1962 fo 27-3-1963 and 27-3-1963 to 14-1-1964. Six charges had been framed. On 14-1-1964 Shri S. C. Misra IPS, Addl. Superintendent of Police, submitted his report of enquiry (Annexure II) wherein he held that charge No. VI was proved completely and charge No. IV partially. The petitioner was served with the notice (Annexure III) to show cause why he should not be dismissed from the force by Shri Damodar Chhotray, D. I. G. of Police, Central Range. He showed cause (Annexure IV). Shri Ghanashyam Das, D. I. G. of Police Central Range, by his order (Annexure J) dated 5-7-1966 passed the following order:
(2.) Mr. Rath for the petitioner advanced the following contentions:
(3.) To appreciate the first two contentions it would be appropriate to extract charges IV and VI from the charge-sheet (Annexure A) drawn up by Shri J. Dharmaraj, D. I. G. of Police, Central Range, on 29-3-1962: