JUDGMENT

[WP(C) Nos.35517/2019 and 32945/2017]

These connected writ petitions are with reference to certain claims made by the petitioner in W.P(C) No.35517 of 2019. The petitioner in W.P(C) No.35517 of 2019 is stated to have joined the service of the 2^nd respondent company in the year 1983 and continued to work there till 31.07.2019 when she retired as General Manager (Construction). The petitioner is stated to belong to the Scheduled Caste community. It is the case of the petitioner that while she was working as the Chief Manger (Construction) and co-ordinating as DGM (projects) in FEDO- an organ of the 2^nd respondent- she was transferred and posted to National Institute of Technology (NIT), Chumukedema in Dimapur District, Nagaland pursuant to Ext.P1 order dated 27.09.2014, where she joined on 15.10.2014. It is further stated that the petitioner was Diabetic and suffering from Vertigo and since the place to which she was transferred was a hilly area, her medical condition aggravated, that she was under treatment as borne out of Ext.P2 and that she had to take leave from 15.12.2014 to 31.12.2014 based on the medical advice. She further contends that she had to undergo treatment at