JUDGMENT :

Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J.

This Letters Patent Appeal is directed against the judgment passed by the learned writ Court whereby the writ petition filed by the writ petitioner came to be allowed and he was directed to be reinstated in service and the amount of terminal benefits received by him was ordered to be adjusted against the amount of his salary from 11.03.1998 onwards.

The facts, in brief, may be noticed thus.

2. The respondent is the writ petitioner (hereinafter referred to as writ petitioner) was enrolled in the Central Reserve Police Force (for short 'CRPF’) as a constable driver on 31.07.1985. At the time of enrollment, he was physically examined and found fit. In 1996, the writ petitioner suffered some problem in his eye and was medically examined at Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu, where he was found suffering from Disseminated Choroiditis and Retinal Atrophic Patihics Macular involvement left eye. His visual acuity was 6/12 in right and 6/60 in left eye with no improvement with glasses i.e. he was found blind by left eye and partially blind in right eye. The Chief Medical Officer (NFSG) Station Hospital, GC, CRPF, Jammu, recommended his case to be