Heard Sri J.J. Munir, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Manish Goyal, learned counsel, appearing on behalf of the respondents.

The brief facts, giving rise to the present writ petition, are that the petitioner is a Review Officer of this Hon'ble Court and was appointed in the service on 9.6.1990. It is the case of the petitioner that on 2.8.2008, after arriving at the office at 09:30 AM, the petitioner received an urgent call from his brother that his wife Smt. Shailee had received injuries in an incident of assault and was in the hospital. The petitioner, on receiving this information from his brother, applied for urgent leave to the Assistant Registrar, Accounts, of this Court under whom he was working, which was sanctioned by the Assistant Registrar. Thereafter, the petitioner proceeded to his home at about 02:00 PM in the afternoon. On reaching at home, he came to know that one Fazal Abbas @ Rajjan, a resident of Lucknow, who had come to attend some function at the house of one Sri Zafar Abbas, Advocte, on 02.08.2008, while proceeding to the place of venue stopped at the residence of the petitioner and finding the wife of the petitioner alone at home tri