Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1095 · Decided 26 September 2008
U.P. State Electricity Board v. Laxmi Kant Gupta
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1095 · [2008] 13 S.C.R. 1051
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5863/2008
- Decided
- 26 September 2008
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act Section 6N
Headnote
·UP Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - s.6N - Illegal termi- nation of service - Relief - Scope of - Held: No hard and fast principle that on termination being found to be illega1, relief of c re-instatement with back wages is to .be granted- Compensa- tion can be awarded instead, at the depending on the facts and circumstances of the case. · TtJe Labour Court directed re-instatement of Respon- -~ dent on the ground. that his service was terminated with- D out complying with the provisions of Section 6-N of the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. Respondent was how- ever
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