JUDGMENT :

(Sugato Majumdar, J.) :

1. The instant writ petition has been preferred against the impugned order dated 31.12.2013 passed in OA No. 551 of 2012 by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Calcutta Bench.

2. In order to consider the question as to whether the order suffers from any infirmity requiring our interference, it may be just and proper to notice the relevant facts.

3. On 26/08/2005, while the petitioner was working in the post of Matron in Howrah Orthopedic Hospital, Eastern Railway, she was harassed and mentally tortured by the Chief Matron, namely, Smt. Sadhana Roy (in short, Sadhana) and such fact was duly reported to the authorities. On the same date Sadhana also lodged a complaint to the Officer-in-Charge, Howrah Police Station alleging inter alia that she had been assaulted by the petitioner. On the same day, another joint petition was also submitted by sixty two staff of the Howrah Orthopedic Hospital, Eastern Railway against the petitioner alleging misbehavior. She was placed under suspension on 26/08/2005 itself. The suspension order was subsequently revoked by the respondent no.4 vide memo dated 24/01/2006. The petitioner was thereafter issued a charge she