KAILASH GAMBHIR, J. (ORAL)

1. By this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner seeks to direct the respondents to treat the suspension period of the petitioner from 5.8.2000 to 20.7.2002 as period spent on duty for all intents and purposes and to direct the respondents to grant the consequential benefits including monetary benefits and to quash and set aside the impugned order dated 20.7.2002 vide which the suspension period of the petitioner has been treated as period not spent on duty and the same shall not be reckoned for any purpose whatsoever and order dated 28.10.2004 and 16.9.2008 vide which the representations of the petitioner were rejected by non-speaking order and without application of mind.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for deciding the present petition are that the petitioner was appointed as a cashier in August, 1965 in Laxmi Commercial Bank, Balimaran, Delhi. Later on Laxmi Commercial Bank merged into Canara Bank in 1988. The petitioner has two sons named Pradeep Sharma and Manish Sharma. His second son Manish Sharma married one Anita Sharma in the year 2000, but she died on 1.8.2000 and a case FIR No. 1643/2000 u