Supreme Court of India

State Bank of India & Ors. v. Sheo Shankar Tewari

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Reported as [2019] 3 S.C.R. 718

Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and Indu Malhotra JJ.

Decided 8 February 2019

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4 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above position, the reasoning given by the learned Single Judge 4 as well as by the Division Bench 5 is not sustainable in the eye of the law.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Service Law – Compassionate appointment – Substitut ion of original scheme under which appointment on compassi onate grounds could be made, by a scheme under which only ex gratia payment to be made over to the dependents – The dec isions of Supreme Court, relied upon by the petitioner procee ded on the premise that there was no vested right to have the matte r considered under the former scheme and the governing scheme wou ld be one which was in force when the applications came up for conside ration – The decision relied upon by the respondent procee ded on a different principle and

Authorities it was built on

2015 Canara Bank and Anr. v. M. Mahesh Kumar cited by 7
2007 State Bank of India and Ors. v. Jaspal Kaur cited by 4
2013 Mgb Gramin Bank v. Chakrawarti Singh cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2025 Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited v. Grse Limited Workmens Union & Ors. referred to
2025 Canara Bank v. Ajithkumar G.K. referred to
2021 The Secretary to Govt. Department of Education (primary) & Ors. v. Bheemesh Alias Bheemappa referred to
2020 N. C. Santhosh v. State of Karnataka & Ors. referred to

Of those, 4 referred to

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