A.K. JAYASANKARAN NAMBIAR, J.

1. The petitioner had joined the 3rd respondent College as a Typist cum clerk with effect from 7.7.1981. She was later promoted as U.D. Clerk and further as Head Clerk with effect from 1.12.1999. In the year 2000, the Direct Payment System was introduced in the College and with effect from 7.12.2009, the Kerala University of Health Sciences Act, 2010 came to govern the service conditions of teaching and non-teaching staff in the respondent College. In the writ petition, the petitioner challenges Ext.P22 order, whereby, a punishment was imposed on the petitioner pursuant to disciplinary proceedings that were initiated against her.

2. The facts in the writ petition would reveal that, on 24.8.2013, the petitioner had left office half an hour earlier without formally informing the Principal in charge of the College. In connection with the said incident, as also the other related charges, the petitioner was served with Exts.P4, P6, P7, P8 and P9 show cause notices, all between August and October, 2013, whereby, her explanation was sought on various incidents, which, according to the management, amounted to gross acts of indiscipline/ insubordination