% Judgment delivered on: 11.07.2014
+ WP(C) No. 8889/2007
AMIT KATYAL .... PETITIONER
VERSUS
GAIL INDIA LTD. & ORS. .....RESPONDENTS
ADVOCATES WHO APPEARED IN THIS CASE:
For the Petitioner : Mr. K.T.S. Tulsi, Sr. Adv. with Ms. Beenashaw N. Soni and Mr. A. Faraz Khan, Advocates
For the Respondents: Mr. Kailash Vasdev, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Ajit Pudussery, Ms. J. Pudussery, Mr. Shreyans
Singhvi and Mr. M. Chandra Sekhar, Advocates
CORAM :-
HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAJIV SHAKDHER
RAJIV SHAKDHER, J
1. This is a writ petition filed to assail the order passed by respondent no.1 dated 30.05.2006 whereby, the petitioner's removal from service has been directed. The principal order, which is the order dated 30.05.2006, has been passed by the disciplinary authority. The subsequent order dated 02.01.2007, passed by the appellate authority, though not specifically referred to in the prayer clause of the appeal filed, is also challenged; albeit implicitly, as the order passed by the reviewing authority dated 13.08.2007 is under challenge. The petitioner though, has lost all throughout.
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2. The challenge to the order of removal from service has been made in the background of the following broad facts :-
2.1