Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 628 · Decided 21 September 2010
P. Rajan Sandhi v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 628 · [2010] 11 S.C.R. 584
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4095/2006
- Decided
- 21 September 2010
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
SERVICE LAW: C WORKING JOURNALISTS AND OTHER NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEES (CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT, 1955: s.5(1) - Payment of gratuity - Assistant Editor in a printing and publishing company - Dismissed from service D after a disciplinary inquiry - Claim for gratuity - Held: is a difference between the provisions for denial of gratuity under the Payment of Gratuity Act and in the Working Journalists Act - Under the Working Journalists Act, gratuity can be denied if the service is E terminated as a punishment inflicted by way of disciplinary act, as has been done in
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