Supreme Court of India

Board of Trustees, Vishakhapatnam Port Trust and Ors. v. T.S.N. Raju and Anr.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 758
Bench Dr. Ar. Lakshmanan and T Arun Chatterjee JJ.
Decided 6 September 2006

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we allow the appeals and set aside the order E passed by the Division Bench affirming the order of the learned single Judge.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Service law c Voluntary Retirement Scheme-Applicable to all Ports-Chairman of a Port Trust Board deciding that only those employees who were below age of 58 years were to be considered for benefit of scheme-Applicability to employee above that age-Port Trust rejecting their application-High Court directing acceptance of their cases-Correctness of-Held-VRS was not an offer but merely an invitation lo treat-Application of employees constituted an offer which could not take effect till its acceptance in writing by Port Trust and could be rejected or accepted at absolute discretion of

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