M. JAICHANDREN, J.

The writ petition has been filed praying for the issuance of a writ of certiorari to call for the records of the first respondent in Complaint No. 6 of 1991 and quash the award, dated 26.3.1997.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as for the respondents.

3. The brief facts of the case, as stated by the petitioner, are as follows:

The second respondent was employed as a Clerk in the petitioner-Bank and he was working in Pandamangalam Branch of the petitioner-Bank, from 26.2.1980. While so, on 18.11.1986, the second respondent, had taken a jewel loan of Rs. 9,000/- from the Canara Bank, Pothanur Pudupalayam, and a sum of Rs. 11,072.02 was outstanding in the said loan account, as on 16.8.1988. On 16.8.1988, the brother-in-law of the second respondent had come to Pandamangalam Branch and the second respondent had given him a sum of Rs. 11,000/-, from the Bank cash, for the purpose of redeeming the jewel which was pledged with the Canara Bank. The said amount had been given away by the second respondent without the sanction of the Branch Manager. Therefore, the Branch Manager, had taken the second respondent to task, asking him to explain as to