Supreme Court of India

Punjab National Bank v. P.K. Mittal

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Reported as [1989] 1 S.C.R. 612
Bench Sabyasachi Mukharji and S. Ranganathan JJ.
Decided 13 February 1989

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that clause (2) of the regulation and its proviso are intended not only for the protection of the bank but also for the benefit of the employee.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Labour and Services: Punjab National Bank Service Regulation No. 20(2): . Withdrawal of resignation letter-Effect of-Whether bank entitled to accept resignation from an earlier date. Civil Services: Resignation by employee-Withdrawal of- Permissibility and effect of. Clause (2) of Regulation 20 of the Service Regulations of the Punjab National Bank lays down that no officer shall resign from the service of the bank otherwise than on the expiry of three months from the service on the hank of a notice in writing of such resignation. The r-roviso thereto empowers the competent authority to

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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