Nainar Sundaram, J.

The petitioner in W.P. No. 11462 of 1985 is the appellant in this writ appeal. The respondent in the writ petition is the respondent in this writ appeal. We are referring to the parties as per their nomenclature in the writ petition for the sake of convenience. The petitioner was initially appointed by the Superintending Engineer, South Arcot Electricity System (South), Villupuram, to the post of Junior Assistant in the year 1970. Her service were regularised and subsequently in 1980 she was promoted as an Assistant. There is no dispute that the petitioner is a physically handicapped person in that she does not have her left forearm. She claims that she could not secure life partner on account of her physical handicap and sympathy flowed from her brother-in-law, namely, her younger sister's husband and he took her in marriage even though his marriage with the petitioner's younger sister was subsisting. This happened in the year 1973. On 1st July, 1985 a charge memorandum was issued to the petitioner putting forth the following charge :

"Tmty. S. Alamelu, then Assistant, Revenue Unit, Virdhachalam (now working at Revenue Unit, Perambalur, Trichy Electri