Supreme Court of India

Sirsi Municipality by its President Sirsi v. Cecelia Kom Francis Tellis

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Reported as [1973] 3 S.C.R. 348
Bench S.M. Sikri J.
Decided 18 January 1973

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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,

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