JUDGEMENT
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(1.)Leave granted.
(2.)The appellant, General Manager of the State Bank of India has preferred this appeal against the Judgment and Final Order dated 30.08.2007 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras in Writ Appeal No. of 2375 of 1999. By the impugned Judgment the High Court dismissed the appellant's Writ Appeal and confirmed the finding and Judgment of the learned Single Judge by which the respondent's Writ Petition was allowed and the orders dismissing him from service were set aside.
(3.)The respondent - Periyasamy, was serving as a Permanent Cash Officer at the Dharmapuri Branch of the State Bank of India in 1986. In a departmental enquiry, he was charged with being accountable for a shortage detected in the currency chest in his joint custody along with one Ganesan. By the second charge, he was charged with not adhering to the laid down instructions regarding currency chest transactions and for committing lapses in the maintenance of the currency chest register. By the third charge, he was charged with excessive outside borrowings in violation of Rule 41(i) of the State Bank of India (Supervising Staff) Service Rules.
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