1. The prayer in the writ petition is to quash the order of the second respondent dated 28. 2005 and direct the Tamil Nadu Housing Board to disburse the arrears of leave salary, encashment of earned leave, Surrender leave, leave on private affairs, disbursement of retirement benefits such as DCRG, commuted value of pension, provident fund, special provident fund and pay 18% interest for the belated payment as held by the Supreme Court in the decision reported in 2000 (2) SLR 686.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he was appointed as Junior Engineer on 3. 1965; promoted as Assistant Executive Engineer on 16. 1970; as Executive Engineer in the year 1977; and as Superintendent Engineer in the year 1994. The petitioner attained the age of superannuation on 30.11.1998. He was not allowed to retire by passing an order of suspension on 211. 1998 stating that while he was holding the post of General Manager (Technical) in the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing Development Corporation on deputation, a charge memo was issued on 111. 1998 alleging that he rejected the tender submitted by the Government of India during the process of pre-qualification bid. Petitioner submitted his e