JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ of Certiorari, calling for the records of the 1st respondent in I.D.No.18 of 2015 and quash its award dated 08.08.2016.)

1. The Writ Petition has been filed, challenging the Award of the 1st respondent dated 08.08.2016 made in I.D.No.18 of 2015, in and by which, the 2nd Respondent was directed to be reinstated within two months with 50% backwages and other attendant benefits.

2. For the sake of brevity, the parties are, in short, referred to as Bank and Employee respectively (for State Bank of India/Petitioners and Antony Mary/R2).

3. It was the case of the Bank that pursuant to the death of the husband of the Employee in harness, the Employee was appointed as Clerk on compassionate ground and in the year 2007, the Employee was working in the Palayamkottai Branch, in which CCTV cameras were installed to videograph the movement of staff members as well as customers. The Branch was also provided with a state of art counting machine, which can count currency notes without even removing the tag, besides having the currency chest of Reserve Bank of India in the Branch.

3.1. It was furt