JUDGMENT :

N. Kotiswar Singh, J.

1. Heard Mr. J.I. Borbhuiya, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. T. Chakraborty, learned counsel assisted by Mr. A.D. Choudhury, learned counsel for the Bank respondents.

2. This is an instance of how human tragedies are dealt with in this country by the officialdom bogged down by rules.

3. The petitioner is presently serving as an Assistant Manager in the Assam Gramin Vikash Bank, a joint undertaking of the Government of India, Government of Assam and United Bank of India. He entered service as a Junior Clerk cum Cashier in the year 1984 and raised in the ladder of hierarchy through promotions and is presently serving in the aforesaid capacity of Assistant Manager.

4. When and how tragedy strikes a person, nobody knows. But when it strikes, it is that particular family which has to bear the brunt of the pain. It is in such situations, fellow human beings come to their side to lessen their pain. That is an index of human civilization, a trait sometimes difficult to observe nowadays, lost in a maze of rules and regulations.

5. In the present case, petitioner's wife met with an accident on 17.06.2013 in which she sustained serious head injuri