Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 567 · Decided 19 May 2023
Om Prakash Banerjee v. The State of West Bengal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 567 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 427
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4210/2023
- Decided
- 19 May 2023
- Bench
- KRISHNA MURARI, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
Service Law - Regularisation of service - Denial of - Held: Non-regularisation of the services of the appellant is a violation of the fundamental rights of equality before law and equality of opportunity in matters relating to employment under the State, as 16(1) - The principles of natural justice, too, demand that the appellant cannot be denied the benefit of the regularisation of services when his similarly placed fellow employees were granted the said benefit - Appellant entitled to receive back wages and benefits from 1991 with 10%
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