Punjab State Cooperative Financing Institutions Service Rules, 1958, Rule 5(v), 6 – Cooperative Bank employee -- Wife and father of employee appointed as Directors – Deemed removal – Notice to petitioner/ employee necessary -- In terms of the Clause 6 the petitioner would have been removed from service on the same day as information was received that the employee had relatives as members of the board, but this removal would have come into effect only after due intimation to the petitioner -- This was never done and in the meantime the term of the Board of Members expired and an Administrator appointed -- Without issuing notice to the petitioner about his family members being members of the Board of Director, the orders terminating the services of the petitioner are not sustainable -- Writ allowed, impugned orders vide which the petitioner was removed from service, set aside -- Official respondents directed to take the petitioner back in service and grant him all the consequential financial benefits, as admissible under the rules.
