Service -- Misconduct - High Court rightly converted the punishment of dismissal from service to punishment of compulsory retirement - However, employee not entitled to claim any service benefits from the date of his suspension and not from the date of his dismissal from service...........
Service -- Termination - Territorial jurisdiction - Cause of action - Appellant employed by company at place `A' and was transferred to place at `P' - However, on account of closure of establishment at `P', appellant was terminated - Labour Court at `P' thus has jurisdiction to entertain the case of appellant - But that does not mean Labour Court at `A' within whose..........
Service -- Termination - Reinstatement - Back wages - By the time award was published employee had already attained the age of superannuation - Award cannot be set aside when grievance is limited to back wages - Appropriate orders on back wages alone are permissible - Impugned order set aside - Employee, held, entitled to 50% back wages from the date of termination till..........
Karnataka Value Added Tax Act, 2004, Section 7 -- Eviction - Effect of - Re-grant of land - Validity of sale deed - Rights of alienee of Inam land - Upon re-grant the title of a holder of Service-inam land would relate back to the date of coming into force of the Act - Alienation effected by principles of `feeding the grant by estoppel' would enure to the benefit of the..........
Service -- Post of Deputy Supdt. of police - Selection process commenced before coming into force of Rules, 2005 - Vacancies in question for the period prior to 2005 - Held, appointment shall be governed by Rules of 2000. (Constitution of India, 1950, Art.309, Chhattisgarh Police Executive (Gazetted) Service Recruitment and Promotion Rules, 2000, R.4, Chhattisgarh Police..........
Service -- Post of Deputy Supdt. of police - Age relaxation to women candidates - 10 years age relaxation is specifically provided to women candidates as per 1997 Rules - Said benefit is not prescribed under Rules 2000 - Omission of said benefit in 2000 Rules were merely accidental and it was not a case of casus omissus, as said omission was rectified while enacting..........
Service -- Disciplinary proceedings - Admission of charges - There is no need to hold an inquiry into the charges...........
Service -- Disciplinary proceedings - Unblemished career throughout - Admission of charges - Once employee admitted the charges, appropriate punishment, as prescribed in the Rules, could be inflicted - It is for the appointing authority to take into account the seriousness of charge and overall performance of the employee while imposing punishment - In the instant case it..........
Service -- Voluntary retirement - Bank of India Voluntary Retirement Scheme 2000 - Scheme is partly mandatory and partly directory - It is mandatory in compliance of some clauses so far as employee is concerned, whereas it is directory in compliance of some clauses so far as Bank is concerned...........
Service -- Voluntary retirement - Disciplinary proceedings - Voluntary retirement sought on 16.11.2000 whereas charge sheet was served on 02.03.2001 - Held, employer was within his rights to issue charge sheet as (i) employee was in employment and he could be subjected to face disciplinary proceedings as per rules; (ii) memo regarding several irregularities committed by..........