AKLESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN the present writ application, the petitioner has prayed for quashing of the order as contained in Annexure 7 to the writ application, whereby the disciplinary authority of the petitioner by order dated 31.8.1987 imposed punishment of dismissal from Service on the basis of the Enquiry Report of the departmental proceeding against the petitioner and also the order of the appellate authority as contained in Annexures 8, 8/1 and 8/2 to the writ application passed by the D.I.G., Director General of Police and the State Government dismissing the appeal and confirming the punishment awarded to the petitioner by the disciplinary authority.

(2.) THE facts of the matter in short are that the petitioner was a Police Constable posted in Bihar Military Police No. IV, Bokaro and he was charged for committing forgery and fraud by doing a wrong entry in the record of Company Office and also for taking diet allowances for the unauthorised period and, accordingly, for the said charges, a departmental proceeding was initiated against him.

(3.) THE petitioner filed an Appeal before the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Ranchi against the order passed by disciplinary authority. The Deputy Inspector General of Police after considering the entire materials on record, by his detail order as contained in Annexure 8 to the writ application, also concurred with the findings of the disciplinary authority and considering the gravity of charges against the petitioner held that the order of dismissal was perfectly justified and thereby dismissed the appeal.