Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1082 · Decided 23 September 2008
K. Alex v. Delhi State Mineral DEV. CORPN.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1082 · [2008] 13 S.C.R. 945
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5797/2008
- Decided
- 23 September 2008
- Bench
- TARUN CHATTERJEE, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law: Re-deployment of retrenched employees - Policy of, c adopted by employer-Corporation - Appellant, one such re- trenched employee - Employer implemented its re-deploy- ment policy in case of all retrenched employees exceptAp- pellant - Services of Appellant were terminated - Held: Ter- discriminatory and violative of right to equality - Reasoning that Appellant was junior-most D cannot be accepted - Even otherwise, Appellant was not a temporary employee and the employer could not have termi- nated him by resorting to the Temporary Service Rules - Di- rection to employer to
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