Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 139 · Decided 13 March 2002
Shambhu Murari Sinha v. Project and Development India LTD. and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 139 · [2002] 2 S.C.R. 396
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2639/2000
- Decided
- 13 March 2002
- Bench
- S.N. PHUKAN, P. VENKATARAMA REDDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Service Law: c Voluntary retirement scheme-Withdrawal-Permissibility of-Retirement application by employee-Acceptance by management with condition- Withdrawal of option of V.R.S. before effective date which is the date of actual release from service-However, management issued release order-Held, actual release of employee from service and not from the date of acceptance of the voluntary D retirement-Thus, since employee had locus poenitentiae to withdraw his propcsal for voluntary retirement before relationship of employer and employee comes to an end, management could not have refused
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