Summary: High Court allowed the writ petition and, while quashing the order of termination, passed an order of reinstatement with all the consequential benefits in favour of the respondent- Partly allowing appeal, SC observed: It is true that the conduct of the appellants in not deciding the applications for VRS cannot be supported at all. However, there was no reason for the respondents to take recourse to absenteeism. When the respondents found that their applications were not decided within a reasonable time, they could have adopted remedies in accordance with the law. But, in any event, the appellants ought to have decided the VRS applications within a reasonable time.