HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No. 30161 OF 1998. DATED 9TH DAY OF FEBRURY, 2010. BETWEEN B.Brahmaiah ….Petitioner And The Board of Director, Girizan Cooperative Corporation Limited, Visakhapatnam.Rep. By its Chairman. And anr. ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No. 30161 OF 1998. ORDER: This Writ Petition is directed against the order passed by the ﬁrst respondent dated 29.8.1998 in proceedings RC.No. 369/96.Admn.I, wherein, the order dated 25.9.1997 in proceedings No.369/96.Admn.I, passed by the second respondent against the petitioner imposing punishment of stoppage of two annual grade increments with cumulative eﬀect and recovery of an amount of Rs.58,000/- equivalent to 20% of the total loss sustained by the Corporation was modiﬁed to that of stoppage of two annual grade increments for a period of two years without cumulative eﬀect and recovery of Rs.58,000/- together with interest. Heard both sides. It appears that the petitioner while working as Divisional Manager, Girijan Cooperative Corporation Limited, Eturunagaram, committed certain irregularities in disposal of M.P. gunnies and was made responsible for the loss sustained by the Corporation of more than Rs.4,00,000/- and therefore, a detailed enquiry was conducted into the matter. The second respondent vide proceedings dated 25.9.1997 found the petitioner guilty of the charges levelled against the petitioner and imposed punishment of stoppage of two annual grade increments with cumulative eﬀect besides recovery of an amount of Rs.58,000/- equivalent to 20% of loss sustained by the Corporation in the sale of gunnies. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner carried the matter in appeal before the ﬁrst respondent-Board of Director, Girijan Cooperative Corporation Limited, Visakhapatnam. The appellate authority after considering the appeal in detail, modiﬁed the punishment imposed by the second respondent to that of stoppage of annual grade increments for a period of two years without cumulative eﬀect and conﬁrmed the amount to be recovered from the petitioner. Not satisfied with the same, the petitioner ﬁled the present Writ Petition. The misconduct alleged as such against the petitioner arose in the year 1995 and the proceedings were issued imposing punishment on 25.9.1997 and the same was conﬁrmed in the appeal on 29.8.1998. We are now in 2010. In the meanwhile the petitioner after attaining the age of superannuation retired from service in the year 2001. This Court while admitting the Writ Petition on 02.11.1998, directed the respondents not to take any coercive steps against the petitioner subject to the condition, the petitioner depositing Rs.20,000/-, within four weeks from the date of the said order. Under these circumstances, I am of the opinion that ends of justice would be met, if the impugned order is modiﬁed keeping in view the age of the petitioner and his retirement from service nine years back, to that of stoppage of two annual increments for a period of two years without cumulative eﬀect and recovery of Rs.20,000/- ( which he had already paid pursuant to the interim order dated 2.11.1998) instead of Rs.58,000/-. The Writ Petition is allowed in part to the extent indicated above. No order as to costs. ------------------------------------ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU DATED 9T H FEBRUARY, 2010. Msnr.