VALMIKI J. MEHTA, J.

1. By this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, petitioner Mrs. Shobha Kaur, widow of the late employee Sh. Prithvi Paul Singh, seeks the relief for being granted pension to her late husband and also consequent family pension to the petitioner. Petitioner also prayed that petitioner be granted interest on account of late payment of the terminal benefits.

2. The facts of the case are that the petitioner’s husband was granted leave to visit USA in the year 1991. The leave was up to 24.12.1991 whereafter the petitioner’s husband returned to India but again went back to USA on 19.2.1992 on the ground that petitioner’s mother had suffered a fracture in her hip bone. Petitioner’s husband thus went to USA on 19.2.1992 without getting any leave sanctioned and the petitioner claims that the leave applications were “mercilessly rejected” by the employer vide letters dated 20.4.1992 and 2.6.1992. Petitioner then pleads that petitioner’s husband submitted his resignation to the bank on 23.10.1992 and petitioner’s husband thereafter kept