HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Special Appeal No.57 of 2008 Virendra Kumar Gupta S/o late Sri M. R. Gupta R/o District Cooperative Bank Ltd. District Uttarkashi .……… Appellant Versus U.P. Cooperative Institutional Service Board & others… Respondents Mr. V. K. Bisht, Senior Advocate with Mrs. Seema Sirohi, Advocate for the appellant. Mr. J. P. Joshi, Chief Standing Counsel for the respondents. . Coram: Hon’ble V.K. Gupta, C.J. Hon’ble J.C.S. Rawat, J. V.K. GUPTA, C. J. (Oral) For the reasons stated, Delay Condonation Application No.2297 of 2008 is allowed. The delay in filing the appeal is condoned. The appeal shall be treated to be filed in time. Heard on admission. We have perused the impugned judgment. We have also gone through the charges reproduced in the impugned judgment. Looking to the nature of the charges and the gravity of the allegations against the appellant writ petitioner, we deem it appropriate that the appellant was let off rightly by imposition of the penalty of stoppage of three increments with cumulative effect and the recording of adverse entry. We fully agree with the learned Single Judge that this was a fit case where the appellant ought to have been dismissed from service. The respondents have taken a lenient view which perhaps surprises us in this matter, however, we wish to add no more and while upholding the impugned judgment of the learned Single Judge we dismiss the appeal. (J.C.S. Rawat, J.) (V.K. Gupta, C. J.) Dated 09.05.2008 LSR