D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.

( 1 ) RULE. By consent of Counsel, returnable forthwith. At the request of and with the consent of all Counsel, taken up for final hearing. The Petitioner joined the services of the First respondent at the Tarapur Atomic Power Station as a Lower division Clerk on 20th September 1990. The appointment of the petitioner was on compassionate grounds since it has been stated that her father had died in harness in 1987. The case of the petitioner is that in the middle of April 2003 she was in a mentally disturbed state. The Petitioner has averred that this was "on account of (a) character assassination campaign all around including in her office arising out of a misunderstanding that she, a married woman with two children eloped with a younger bachelor colleague though she had gone to Pune with him at his request to help him in a family matter of arranging a marriage alliance for his sister".

( 2 ) THE Petitioner was absent from duty from 25th April 2003. It has been stated that the Petitioner had to undergo medical treatment physically and psychologically and she was certified to be fit to work by the Civil Surgeon at Thane on 6th November 2003. In the mea