Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 834 · Decided 16 August 2022
Deepika Singh v. Central Administrative Tribunal and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 834 · [2022] 7 S.C.R. 557
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5308/2022
- Decided
- 16 August 2022
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 15(3)
Headnote
Service Law: Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules 1972: r. 43 - Maternity leave - Entitlement to - Female government servant- nursing officer applied for maternity leave on the birth of her first biological child when she had already taken the benefit of child care leave in her spouse from his first marriage - Rejected by the tribunal as also the High Court - On appeal, held: Independent of the grant of maternity leave, a woman is also entitled to the grant of child care leave for taking care of her two eldest surviving children whether for rearing or
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