THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI AND THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CITY CIVIL COURT APPEAL No.162 OF 2009 JUDGMENT: (Per Hon’ble Smt. Justice Tirumala Devi Eada)

This is an appeal filed by the appellant being aggrieved by the judgment and decree, dated 26.12.2005, passed in O.S.No.78 of 2001 by the learned XIV Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court at Hyderabad (for short “the trial Court”).

2. The appellant herein is the defendant and the respondent herein is plaintiff before the trial Court and the parties herein are referred to as they were arrayed in the suit before the trial Court for the sake of convenience and clarity.

3. The brief facts of the case before the trial Court are that the plaintiff bank appointed the defendant as a Probationary Officer and that the defendant joined the service on 22.12.1983. He worked as Assistant Manager (Accounts) of Chandrayanagutta Branch, Hyderabad from 01.09.1997 to 12.10.1998 and thereafter, he was posted as System Administrator in the plaintiff branch from 13.10.1998 till 17.08.2000 i.e. the date of his suspension. It is the case of the plaintiff that on 16.08.2000 they could notice that the defendant while wor