JUDGMENT :

T. Raja, J.

Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 23.12.2014 made in W.P.No.23923 of 2007.

1. State Bank of India represented by its Deputy General Manager, Coimbatore has brought this writ appeal, having been aggrieved by the impugned order dated 23.12.2014 passed by the learned single Judge in Writ Petition No.23923 of 2007, in and by which the award dated 18.08.2006 passed by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal cum Labour Court (for short, “the Industrial Tribunal”) in I.D.No.117 of 2005, setting aside the punishment imposed against Mr.B.Muthukumar, the second respondent herein as illegal, was confirmed.

2. Mr.S.Ravindran, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the appellant-Bank argued that when the charge-sheeted employee, Mr.B.Muthukumar was working as Assistant at Ketty Valley Branch, he had committed several misconducts during the period 1999-2001, therefore, he was placed under suspension during July, 2001, because he raised fictitious credits in various savings bank accounts and posted extraneous credits in the ledger accounts and also fraudulently prepared withdrawal forms forging the signatures of the account hold