The petitioner was employed as a telephone operation in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation. She claims to have complained of misbehaviour on the part of one Paramasivam, her immediate superior. Later, certain charges were framed against the petitioner and she was placed under suspension. These charges dealt with her absence from duty and instanced certain wilful acts of insubordination. It is at this stage that the petitioner has come to this court with a petition under article 226 with a prayer that the proceedings against her may be quashed. In the affidavit accompanying her petition, she denies the substance of the charges. She further alleges that there are no valid reasons for placing her under suspension. She claims that her request to allow her father to be present at the enquiry proposed to be conducted has been refused and that this denial prevents her from effectively and fully defending herself, the more so for the reason that she herself had complained of an attempt at misbehaviour on the part of a superior employee

On behalf of the Corporation, it is stated that the complaint of the petitioner against the said Paramasivam was examined and found to be baseless.