220 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 22.09.2025 STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS ... APPELLANTS VS.

PHOOL MATI ALIAS PHOOL WATI .. RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR MISHRA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHIT KAPOOR Present: Mr. Pankaj Mulwani, Sr. DAG, Haryana.

Mr. R.S.Malik, Advocate, for the respondent.

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ASHWANI KUMAR MISHRA , J. (ORAL)

This appeal arises out of an order passed by the learned Single Judge dated 05.02.2020 in CWP-19659-2018, whereby order dated 20.12.2017, passed by appellant No.3, is modified and the benefit of salary has been allowed to the respondent-petitioner for the period from 27.06.2011 till the date of her reinstatement.

2. Undisputed facts of the case are that while working in the Government High School, Katlupur, Tehsil Kharkhoda, District Sonipat, the respondent-petitioner came to be implicated in an offence under Sections 498- A and 304-B IPC vide FIR No. 178 dated 08.06.2011. The respondent- petitioner was arrested. Since she was in judicial custody during trial, as such, the respondent was dismissed from service on 27.06.2011. The basis of the dismissal order was the implication of the respondent-petitioner in