JUGAL KISHORE GUPTA Vs. PUNJAB STATE AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is directed against the order of reversion passed against the Petitioner.

(2.) IN February, 1962, the Petitioner was working as Sub -Divisional Officer in the Public Works Department (Public Health). At the relevant time he was posted under an Executive Engineer, Shri Manohar Lal Prabhakar. The Petitioner and a number of other subordinates had a grievance against the Executive Engineer for his using abusive and filthy language against them. As many as thirty -one persons sent under their signatures a written representation to the Chief Secretary to Government, Punjab, complaining that they be saved from:

(3.) THE Petitioner furnished his explanation on the 6th of April, 1962, (Annexure D. 1 to the petition) wherein all the allegations are denied. There -after the Petitioner was transferred as Sub Divisional Officer to Narnaut vide order dated the 20th of April, 1962. The Petitioner reached Narnaul on the 2nd at June and asked the Sub Divisional Officer in charge to hand him over the charge but this request was refused on the ground that the Sub Divisional Officer had received in information from the Chief Engineer not to hand over the charge. Thereafter the Petitioner sent a detergent on the 20th of June, 1962. to the Chief Engineer, Patita, intimating to him the new development but with no effect except that on the 5th of June 1962 the Petitioner received a letter from the Superintend!!)'.,' Engineer. Public Health Rohtak, informing that the Petitioner's order of transfer had been cancelled. The Petitioner thereafter sent a telegram on the 6th of June. 1962 to the Chief Engineer, patiala, requesting him where to proceed. To that telegram the Petitioner received a fetter, dated the 7th of June. 1962, intimating to the Petitioner that his leave for 90 days had been granted from the date "the Petitioner relinquishes the charge at Amritsar (Annexure E -1).