ORDER

Per: - Rajinder Singh Dogra, Judicial Member

1. The applicant has filed the present Original Application under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 seeking the following reliefs: -

a) Directing the respondents to accord sanction of earned leave equivalent to cash in lieu of leave salary in favour of the applicant in terms of Rule 26 (A) and 37 (1) of J&K Civil Services Leave Rule 1979 for 89 days for which the applicant is entitled for cash in lieu leave salary on account of actual duties rendered by the applicant in the year 1987 i.e. prior to the issuance of circular no. 34 dated 09.12.2020, thus, the said circular is not applicable in the case of the applicant.

b) Any other relief which this Hon'ble Tribunal may deem just and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case be passed in favour of the applicant and against the non-applicants /respondents. 

2. The facts of the case as averred by the applicant in her pleadings, are as follows: -

a) The applicant, Smt. Santosh Kumari, is a permanent resident of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir and presently of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. She entered government service in the Education Departmen