Supreme Court of India

General Manager, North West Railway & Ors. v. Chanda Devi

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Reported as [2007] 13 S.C.R. 403
Bench S.B. Sinha and Harjit Singh Bedi JJ.
Decided 12 December 2007

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above position, if any of those employees who had put in the required minimum service of one year, that too after the appointment to the temporary E post, died while in service, his widow would be eligible to pension under the Family Pension Scheme, 1964.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Railway Establishment Manual-Chapter XX rr. 2001, 2002, 2005-Casual labour-Attaining temporary status-Pensionary benefits (family pension)-Entitlement-Held: The employee was not c entitled to benefit of pensionary benefits under the Pension Rules- There is distinction between casual labour having temporary status and a temporary employee-Moreover, the process for regularization . had started after the death of the employee-Direction for not recovering any benefit, if already granted-Railway Services (Pension) ~ Rules, 1993-Constitution of India, 1950-Article 142. Husband of respondent No.1

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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