Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 708 · Decided 6 May 2009
Swaran Singh Chand v. Punjab State Electricity Board & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 708 · [2009] 7 S.C.R. 1084
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3298/2009
- Decided
- 6 May 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
1084 A SWARAN SINGH CHAND i -V. PUNJAB STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD & ORS. Civil Appeal No. 3298 of 2009 B. MAY 6, 2009 [S. B. SINHA AND DR. MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA, JJ] Service Law - Compulsory retirement - Order of compulsory retirement when stigmatic in nature - Held: Is bad • ..; in law - On a case where there had been steady decline in the ~ performance of employee - There was non-compliance of necessary directions in the circular laying down guidelines for D compulsory retirement, thus amounted to malice in law- Thus, order of compulsory retirement being illegal, is not
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