GUWAHATI, India, Feb. 2 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on Jan. 6:

1. Heard Mr. A F N U Mollah, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. K Konwar, learned Additional Advocate General, Assam, appearing for the State respondent.

2. The petitioner in the present proceedings has presented a challenge to an order dated 18.10.2012 issued towards imposing upon him the penalty of removal from service upon completion of a departmental proceeding instituted against him.

The petitioner, herein, was appointed as a Gaon Panchayat Secretary and while working in such capacity in Hatipukhuri Gaon Panchayat, his services as a Gaon Panchayat Secretary came to be regularized by the respondent authorities vide issuance of a Memorandum da...