Supreme Court of India

Union of India & Ors. v. Rakesh Kumar & Ors.

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Reported as [2017] 3 S.C.R. 783
Bench A.K. Sikri J.
Decided 24 March 2017

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What the Court ordered

We hold: i) the casual worker after obtaining temporary status is entitled to reckon 50% of his serv,rices till he is regularised on a regular/temporary post for the purposes of calculation of pension.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Service Law - Pensionary benefits - Whether the entire service of a casual worker after obtaining temporary status till his regular absorption on a post is entitled to be reckoned for pensionary benefit or only 50 per cent period of such service can be reckoned for pensionary benefit - Held: Casual worker after obtaining temporary status is entitled to reckon 50% of his services till he is regularised on a regular/temporary post for the purposes of calculation of pension - The casw'i worker before obtaining the temporary status c is also entitled to reckon 50% of casual service for purposes

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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