GUPTESHWAR SINGH Vs. BIHAR STATE FOOD & CIVIL SUPPLIES CORPORATION LIMITED, PATNA : J.K.DUTTA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BIHAR STATE FOOD & CIVIL SUPPLIES CORPORATION LIMITED, PATNA : CHIEF OF ADMINISTRATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the counsel for the parties.

(2.) THE petitioner has challenged the order dated 09/05/2003, contained in memo no. 2804, passed by Respondent no.

(3.) MR . Annop Kumar Mehta, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner by relying on the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of "Ram Ekbal Sharma V/s. State of Bihar and Another, reported in 1990 Lab I.C. 1188" has submitted that the impugned order, contained in Annexure -9, is nothing but an order of punishment and, therefore, without initiating a departmental proceeding against the petitioner, he could not have been ordered to compulsory retire from service.