Kanakaraj, J.

1. This writ appeal filed by the Indian Bank, a bank nationalised under the Banking Companies (Acquisition of Undertakings) Act, 1970 poses a challenge to the Bench and the Bar. Whether we rise up to the occasion and meet the challenge, within the four corners of law, will be seen only when we conclude the judgment.

2. The first respondent was working as a Shroff in the Rasipuram Branch of the Appellant Bank. On 17.5.1972 one Sanjeevi acting on behalf of his wife Dhanalakshmi gave a complaint addressed to the Agent of the Rasipuram Branch of the appellant Bank. The gist of the complaint was that Dhanalakshmi was holding an R.P. Account. bearing No. C-51, that Sanjeevi gave the first respondent a sum of Rs.250 per mensem from December, 1968 to January, 1972 to be deposited in the R.P. account of his wife, that when the complainant was desirous of getting a loan from R.P. Account, he learnt that the amounts had not been deposited and when the first respondent was called for and questioned, he had admitted that the deposit was made only for seven months and for the balance of 32 months, the amount totaling to Rs.8,000 had not been deposited in the Bank and that the