Thanks Martin.
With verbose mode, I was able to see that monit was complaining about
missing "stop program" in the config file.
Got around the error and added a new script to handle start/stop of the
process. Still, its failing to restart.

Here is corresponding log entry:
===
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] debug    : 'whileTest' Error testing process id
[8075] -- No such process
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] error    : 'whileTest' process is not running
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] info     : 'whileTest' trying to restart
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] debug    : 'whileTest' Error testing process id
[8075] -- No such process
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] debug    : 'whileTest' Error testing process id
[8075] -- No such process
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] info     : 'whileTest' start: /tmp/monit.sh
[CST Dec  6 08:39:41] debug    : 'whileTest' Error testing process id
[8075] -- No such process
[CST Dec  6 08:39:42] debug    : 'whileTest' Error testing process id
[8075] -- No such process
[CST Dec  6 08:40:18] error    : 'whileTest' failed to start

===
*
*
*Script:*

RETVAL=0
modulename="/tmp/whileTest"
start() {

        cnt=$(ps -T | grep -c $modulename 2>/dev/null)
        if [ $cnt -le 1 ] ;  then
                $modulename &
        else
                echo "$modulename already running"
                echo
        fi
        return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
        pkill -f "$modulename "
}

case "$1" in
start)
        start
        ;;
stop)
        stop
        ;;
esac
exit $?
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