JUDGMENT :

A.P. Sahi, J.

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 13.6.2019 made in W.P.No.11473 of 2004.)

1. This appeal had been initially presented with the cause title of Syndicate Bank, which was permitted to be substituted by the Canara Bank vide our order dated 7.9.2020. The necessary changes in the cause title, therefore, have to be incorporated as per our order dated 7.9.2020.

2. The appellant bank is aggrieved by the impugned judgment dated 13.6.2019, whereby the learned Single Judge taking a lenient view of the punishment awarded to the respondent/petitioner, modified it, after quashing the communication dated 29.4.1999, by directing the appellant bank to accept the respondent's letter of resignation dated 1.10.1998 and treat his services to be pensionable. Consequently, all terminal benefits, including pension, were directed to be released after adjusting any of the monetary benefits that may have been received by the respondent/petitioner.

3. The background in which the aforesaid dispute arose emanated from a proceeding whereby the respondent/petitioner had been transferred to the post of Assistant Manager in the Zonal Office at C