JUDGMENT :

1. The defeated applicant before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ernakulam Bench is the petitioner in this Original Petition.

2. The facts as disclosed in the Original Application reveal that the petitioner entered service as a RTP employee in the year 1982. She was absorbed into regular service in the year 1990. She retired from service on 30.11.2016. Alleging that there is a fraud committed by MPKBY agent at Velloor Class II Post Office for a period from 17.9.2007 to 29.5.2011, the petitioner was proceeded departmentally. By Annexure-A1 charge sheet dated 18.7.2016, the applicant was framed for the misconduct under Rule 14 of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 (in short ‘CCS (CCA) Rules’]. On culmination of the Departmental enquiry, which by the time, led to the retirement of the petitioner from service resulted in a report dated 24.7.2018. In Annexure-A2, the charges against the petitioner were proved and therefore, the matter was placed before the Government of India to take appropriate decision on the recommendation of withholding of 10% of her monthly pension, otherwise admissible to her, for a period of one year. In rela