JUDGMENT :

S.M. SUBRAMANIAM, J.

Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records relating to the impugned order of the second respondent in No. A.4/732/2013 dated 17.05.2013 and quash the same and direct the respondents to pay interest to the petitioner on the belated payment of the benefits mentioned in the impugned order and grant him all consequential benefits including the payment of arrears.

1. The order of rejection, rejecting the claim of the writ petitioner for payment of interest to the petitioner on the belated payment of the terminal benefits is under challenge in the present writ petition.

2. The writ petitioner states that he was appointed as Assistant (Selection Grade), Office of the Joint Director of Agriculture, Nagapattinam and placed under suspension on account of initiation of departmental disciplinary proceedings. Pursuant to the orders of the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal, the petitioner was reinstated in service. The disciplinary proceedings ended with an order of punishment of stoppage of increment for two years with cumulative effect in proceedings dated 30.