Act Civil Appeal @ SLP (C) No.4106/2021 Page 3 of 38before the Division Bench of the High Court, inter alia, on the following grounds: (i) The charges against the respondent were found proved in the enquiry. They were of serious nature warranting penalty including that of dismissal or removal from service. Compulsory retirement is nothing but a species of removal from service and, therefore, being a lesser penalty than dismissal or removal from service, was an imposable punishment. (ii) Section 11 of the CRPF Act provides that, subject to the rules made under the Act, the Commandant or any other authority or officer, as may be prescribed, award in lieu of, or in addition to, suspension or dismissal, anyone or more of the punishments specified therein to any member of the Force whom he considers to be guilty of disobedience, neglect of duty or remissness in the discharge of any Civil Appeal @ SLP (C) No.4106/2021 Page 4 of 38duty or of other misconduct in his capacity as a member of