Supreme Court of India

Reserve Bank of India and Anr. v. Cecil Dennis Solomon and Anr.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 465

Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.

Decided 4 December 2003

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Service Law: Reserve Bank of India Pension Regulations, 1990-Regulations 2(12) and 18-The Reserve Bank of India Staff Regulations, 1948-Regulation 26(3)-Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934-Section 58(2)(1)-Resignation by employees-Entitlement to pension-High Court holding that employees were entitled to pension as resignation from service was akin to voluntary retirement-Held, the High Court was in error in equating the case of resignation to voluntary retirement-The two are conceptually different in service jurisprudence and different consequences would flow depending upon one or the other of

Authorities it was built on

1977 Dinesh Chandra Sangma v. State of Assam & Ors. cited by 13

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2015 Asger Ibrahimamin v. Life Insurance Corporation of India distinguished

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