JUDGMENT

Nelson Sailo, J. - Heard Mr. I. Choudhury, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Mr. S. Bishwa Karma learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. S. Tapin, learned Senior Govt. Advocate, who appears for all the respondents.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that she was serving in the post of Assistant in the Police Headquarter and attached as Cashier in the Office of the Director General of Police, Itanagar since the year 2013. On 24.12.2009, on the request of Constable A. Keot, the petitioner went to the State Bank of India (SBI), Itanagar and found him to have already reached the SBI and was standing in the cash counter. They encashed the DCR from the cash counter and withdrew an amount of Rs. 12,98,628/-. Constable A. Keot asked her to carry the cash amount in her local bag and accordingly, as instructed, she kept Rs. 98,628/- with her and the remaining amount of Rs. 12 lakhs was kept in the local bag that she brought. Thereafter, Constable A. Keot asked her to leave the Bank and go with one Head Constable D. Das and that he himself would go with one Head Constable M. Reba. Thereafter, when the petitioner and Head Constable D. Das were about to leave the Bank by the