Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 18 · Decided 7 March 2019
Birla Institute of Technology v. The State of Jharkhand & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 18 · [2019] 2 S.C.R. 963
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2530/2012
- Decided
- 7 March 2019
- Bench
- ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, INDU MALHOTRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972: s.2(e) - Appellant is a premier technical educational Institute of repute in the country - Respondent no.4 joined the appellant- Institute as Assistant Professor - On superannuation, he made a claim for payment of gratuity amount - Entitlement of "employee" as defined under s.2(e) was amended with effect from 03.04.1997 retrospectively by Payment of the Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2009 (No. 47 of 2009) published on 31.12.2009 - In the light of the amendment made, the benefit of the Payment of Gratuity Act was
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