Supreme Court of India

Gurmail Singh and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. State of Punjab and Ors.

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Reported as [1990] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 367
Bench S. Ranganathan, P.B. Sawant and N.M. Kasliwal JJ.
Decided 25 October 1990

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons discussed above, we declare that the appellants will be entitled to add their service in the Government to their length F of service in the Corporation for purposes of computation of their salary, length of service and retirement benefits.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: Section 25F and 25FF and Punjab Government Notification dared November 30, 1982-Tubewells trans­ ferred to Punjab Stare Tubewell Corporation-Permanent posts abolished-Temporary posts disconu·nued-Rights of affected employees. The appellants were in service as tubewell operators in the Irriga­ tion Branch of the Public Works Department of the Punjab Govern­ ment. The State took a decision to transfer all the tubewells in this branch to the Punjab State Tubewell Corporation, a company wholly owned and managed by the State of Punjab. Consequent on this deci­ sion,

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