Supreme Court of India

Umapati Choudhary v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [1999] 3 S.C.R. 752
Bench Sujata V. Manohar, D.P. Mohapatra and R.C. Lahoti JJ.
Decided 14 May 1999

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the High Court was in error in dismissing the writ petition filed by the appellant.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

SERVICE LAW-Deputation-Concept of-It is consensual-It involves a voluntary decision of employer to lend services of his employee and a corresponding acceptance of such services by the borrowing employer- . . . Consent of employee to go on deputation also required-Parent department, "the borrowing authority and deputationist, had all given their consent for deputation and his permanent absorption-No material that deputation was not in public interest or vitiated by favouritism or mala fide-Since 1981, deputationist holding the post-He retired in '1996-Held, deputationist shall be treated to be

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Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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