Supreme Court of India
Vijay S. Sathaye v. Indian Airlines Ltd. and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, as the petitioner had voluntarily abandoned the services of the respondents, there was no requirement on the part of the respondents to pass any order whatsoever on his application and it is a clear cut case of voluntary abandonment of service and the petitions are liable to be dismissed.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
Service Law: Voluntary Retirement - Employee applied seeking c voluntary retirement under Voluntary Retirement Scheme - During pendency of his application for approval from the competent authority, he did not attend the duty - Application rejected - Writ petition challenging the rejection dismissed by Single Judge of High Court - Writ appeal a/so dismissed by Division Bench of High Court - Held: The employ~e did not ensure compliance of Regulation 12(b) of Serv4ce Regulations which required three months notice as a condition for applying VRS - Acceptance of the application was a/so subject to
Authorities it was built on
- 2010 Sant Lal Gupta & Ors. v. Modern Coop. Group Housing Society Ltd. & Ors.
- 1963 The Buckingham and Carnatic Co. Ltd. v. Venkatiah and Anr.
- 1963 Raghunath Keshava Kharkar v. Ganesh and Others
- 2000 Aligarh Muslim University and Ors. v. Mansoor Ali Khan Etc.
- 1978 G. T. Lad & Ors v. Chemicals & Fibres of India Ltd.
- 2006 V.C. Banaras Hindu University & Ors. v. Shrikant
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Cmj Foundation and Others v. State of Meghalaya and Others
- 2018 Manju Saxena v. Union of India & Anr.
- 2022 Pharmacy Council of India v. Rajeev College of Pharmacy and Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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