The petitioner was selected and appointed as Sub-Registrar Grade II by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission in the year 2001. While working as Sub Registrar Grade II, the petitioner was initiated with disciplinary action vide proceedings dated 4.8.2007 under Section 17(b) of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline & Appeal) Rules for certain acts of misconduct and because of that, he had not been empanelled for promotion to the post of Sub Registrar Grade I in the year 2006-07 while his juniors were promoted to the said post and thereafter, they were also further promoted as District Registrars. The said disciplinary proceedings had ultimately culminated in imposing punishment of stoppage of increment for a period of six months without cumulative effect, vide order dated 20.11.2009 by the second respondent. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner preferred an appeal to the first respondent, which came to be allowed by setting aside the punishment imposed on him. Thereafter, consequent to the setting aside the punishment, though the petitioner was fit for being promoted, however, the second respondent, vide proceedings dated 27.4.2009 issued another charge memo against the petitioner under Rule 17(b), which ended in imposing the penalty of 'censure'. As against this, the petitioner once again preferred an appeal before the first respondent, which came to be allowed by setting aside the penalty of censure. While so, again the second respondent issued another show cause notice dated 30.6.2010, which also ended with the imposition of penalty of censure, which also came to be set aside by the first respondent in the appeal preferred
