Supreme Court of India

Balbir Kaur and Anr. v. Steel Authority of India Ltd. and Ors.

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Reported as [2000] 3 S.C.R. 1053

Bench S.B. Majmudar and Umesh C. Banerjee JJ.

Decided 5 May 2000

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Service·Law: ·Compassionate appointment to dependent of deceased employee-Intro duction of Family Benefit Scheme by Tripartite Agreement-Effect of on com passionate appointment-Held, said agreement expressly preserved circular pertaining to compassionate appointment-Family Benefit Scheme cannot be equated with benefit of compassionate appointments-Compassionate appoint ment cannot be denied in view of objectives of social and economic justice enshrined in the Constitution-Constitution of India, 1950-Article 12. Employees Provident.Found & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 & Payment of

Authorities it was built on

1982 D.S. Nakara & Others v. Union of India cited by 127

Where later benches applied it

2015 Canara Bank and Anr. v. M. Mahesh Kumar relied on
2013 State of Jharkhand and Another v. Harihar Yadav and Others relied on
2025 Canara Bank v. Ajithkumar G.K. referred to
2022 Central Bank of India v. Nitin referred to
2023 Bank of Baroda & Ors v. Baljit Singh distinguished

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

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