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5. In my opinion, no person in his right mind would feign mental illness unless he really suffers from such illness, after all, making such false claim can have grave implication for his future and is also most likely to cast stigma on his children thereby making them pariah in the society for having a mentally sick father. It is another matter that he may have been forced to disclose his mental illness in the interest of his service career. In any case, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the respondent Board should have proceeded against the petitioner under FR 18 to determine as to whether he was really mentally sick as claimed by him or not or whether his absence from duty can be treated as wilful absence from duty or not and should not have terminated the service of the petitioner without first undertaking such exercise. FR 18 is in the following terms: