Supreme Court of India

Chaitanya Prakash & Anr. v. H. Omkarappa

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Reported as [2010] 1 S.C.R. 467
Bench V.S. Sirpurkar J.
Decided 12 January 2010

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the impugned order C is not stigmatic and as such the decision of the High Court is erroneous and vitiated.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Service law - Termination - Employee on probation - Performance not found satisfactory - Extension of probation period - Thereafter, termination of employee - High Court holding the termination order as stigmatic - Directions to employer to allow the employee to continue in service - On appeal, held: Employer had time and again specifically brought to the notice of employee of his short comings, gave o ample opportunities to improve them and no misconduct as such was alleged against employee - Thus, was termination . simpliciter due to unsuitability of employee .and not punishment for

Where later benches applied it

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