JUDGMENT (Oral)

1. This is a second appeal under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC). The appellant has suffered adverse orders both at the hands of the learned Civil Judge (South East) and, thereafter, at the hands of the learned Additional District Judge (the learned ADJ). The appellant's suit was dismissed by the learned Civil Judge and the first appeal preferred by the appellant was also dismissed by the learned ADJ. The appellant is before this Court in second appeal.

2. The appellant was employed as a Senior Officer with the Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) on 26 October 2009. He resigned from the services of the HDFC on 27 September 2011. The resignation was accepted by the HDFC on 5 December 2011.

3. On the ground that the appellant had been short paid his terminal dues, consequent on his resignation, the appellant instituted Suit 38/2015, subsequently numbered as Suit 50863/2016 (Nitin Kumar v. HDFC and Ors.) before the learned Civil Judge. By way of the suit, the appellant claimed various amounts as terminal benefits, which allegedly remained outstanding.

4. As already noted, the learned Civil Judge rejected the appellant's claim and t