Supreme Court of India
Sirsi Municipality by its President Sirsi v. Cecelia Kom Francis Tellis
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What the Court ordered
For the foregoing reasons the High Court was correct in declaring the dismissal of the respondent to be illegal anq void.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
i) Tennination or dismissal of what is described as a pure contract of master and servant is not declared to be a nullity however wrongful or iIJ.egal it may be. The reason is that dismissal in breach of contract is remedied by damages. [353F-GJ In the case of servant of the State or of local authorities, courts have declared in appropriate cases the dismissal to be invalid if the dismissal is contra'rv to the rules of natural justice or if the dismissal or if- the dismissal iS in violation of the provisions of the stattife. Apart fram the intervention of statute there would not be a,
Where later benches applied it
- 2018 Kailash Singh v. The Managing Committee, Mayo College, Ajmer & Ors.
- 2008 State Bank of India and Ors. v. S.N. Goyal
- 2002 Chandrakant Tukaram Nikam and Ors. v. Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad and Anr.
- 1990 Delhi Transport Corporation v. D.T.C. Mazdoor Congress
- 1980 Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Warehousing Corporation & Anr. v. Vinay Narayan Vajpayee
- 1976 I. N. Subba Reddy v. Andhra University & Ors.
- 1975 Sukhdev Singh & Ors. v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh Raghuvanshi and Anr.
Of those, 1 relied on · 6 mentioned
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