(1.) This application has been filed for quashing the order dated 7.5.2002 (Annexure-7) whereby the Petitioner has been visited with the penalty of censure, withholding of five increments with cumulative effect, withholding of promotion for three years from the due date and denying further payment, other than the subsistence allowance for the period of suspension. His further prayer is to quash the order dated 20.11.2002 (Annexure-11) whereby the appellate authority while maintaining other penalties, reduced the penalty to withholding of three increments with cumulative effect and stoppage of promotion for three years to one year from the due date.
(2.) Shorn of unnecessary details, facts giving rise to the present application are that while the Petitioner was posted as Assistant Electrical Engineer, a departmental proceeding was initiated against him in relation to purported misconduct committed by him during the period when he was posted as Junior Electrical Engineer, Nasriganj. In altogether five charges were levelled against him. The Enquiry Officer submitted his report dated 5.1.2001 (Annexure-4) exonerating the Petitioner from all the charges. The disciplinary authority disgreeing with the conclusion of the Enquiry Officer and after holding that all the charges have been proved against the Petitioner gave second show cause notice in the follows words:
(3.) Petitioner submitted his reply dated 6.4.2001 (Annexure-6) but the disciplinary authority by the impugned order inflicted the penalty as referred to above and the appeal preferred by the Petitioner against the order of the disciplinary authority was partly allowed with modification in the penalty quoted above.