Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 755 · Decided 18 November 2021
Steel Authority of India Limited v. Gouri Devi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 755 · [2021] 11 S.C.R. 37
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6910/2021
- Decided
- 18 November 2021
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, SANJIV KHANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law: Compassionate appointment - Delay and laches in case of appointment on compassionate ground - Deceased employee died in the year 1977 - Application for compassionate appointment by eldest son was rejected - Despite that after a period of 18 years of the date of of the deceased employee to appoint her second son on compassionate ground - Tribunal directed the appellant to re-consider the case and to appoint the second son on compassionate ground, which order was confirmed by the High Court by impugned judgment - Appeal by employer -
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