1. Petitioner is an Assistant Teacher in an Aided Upper Primary School under the Management of the fifth respondent. She is married. She had applied for maternity leave for a period of 90 days from 2-7-1984 to 29-9-1984 with permission to pre-fix 1-4-1984 to 1-7-1984 and suffix 30-9-1984. The leave application was dated 25-6-1984. That leave was sanctioned. In a subsequent letter dated 2-10-1984, she requested for special casual leave for 14 days from 8-10-1984 to 21-10-1984 since she had undergone sterilisation operation on 30-5-1984. In her letter dated 5-11-1984, she had given the date of sterilisation operation as above. In a further letter dated 4-12-1984, she reported that her last confinement was on 28-5-1984.

2. The Assistant Educational Officer informed in Ext. P1 letter dated 18-12-1984, that she would not be given special casual leave. He also altered the period of her maternity leave as 90 days from 28-5-1984 to 25-8-1984, with permission to pre-fix the summer vacation from 1-5-1984 to 27-5-1984. It was also ordered that the period of leave from 26-8-1984 to 29-9-1984 would be regularised by granting other eligible leave to the petitioner. The Assistant Educa