The petitioner was appointed as Grade-II Police Constable on 16.06.1993 and was promoted as Head Constable, Armed Reserve, Greater Chennai Police in the year 2008 and thereafter he served in J-2 Adyar Traffic Police Station under the 3rd respondent. During that time, he was issued the charge memo in Ko.No.112/Traffic.V.T.P(South)/2014 dated 04.11.2014 alleging that he had misused the Government Vehicle, when he was asked to fill fuel for that said vehicle, which is under the control of J-8 Neelangarai Traffic Police Inspector and also theft the fuel to the tune of 10 liters from the said vehicle. The petitioner submitted his explanation to the said memo on 08.06.2015. However, the enquiry officer being not satisfied with the explanation of the petitioner, filed the final report before the 3rd respondent stating that the charges are proved against the petitioner. Based on the final report, the 3rd respondent vide proceedings dated 02.08.2015 imposed punishment of “postponement of increment for one year with cumulative effect and it shall operate to postpone his future increments. Aggrieved by the said punishment order, the petitioner filed an appeal before the 2nd respondent on 05.09.2015. The Appellate Authority confirmed the punishment order. Thereafter, the petitioner filed the present writ petition challenging the order of the appellate authority.
