Supreme Court of India

Indian Bank & Ors. v. Promila & Anr.

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Reported as [2020] 1 S.C.R. 408

Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul J.

Decided 8 January 2020

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From the headnote

Service Law – Compassionate appointment – Principle s applicable to the cases of – In the appellant-Bank, scheme was brought into force for compassionate appointment on 04.04.79 – New Scheme was promulgated on 05.11.85 which in effect continued the old Scheme – Person appointed as Clerk-cum-Shroff in th e Bank – Died on 15.1.04 – Survived by his wife (responden t no.1 and three minor children, one of the son being responde nt no.2) – Application made on behalf of respondent no.2, when he was minor, seeking compassionate employment – Post the said applicati on, new Scheme was brought into

Authorities it was built on

2015 Canara Bank and Anr. v. M. Mahesh Kumar cited by 7
2019 State of Himachal Pradesh and Anr. v. Parkash Chand cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2023 Bank of Baroda & Ors v. Baljit Singh relied on
2020 State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Amit Shrivas relied on
2025 Canara Bank v. Ajithkumar G.K. referred to
2022 Malaya Nanda Sethy v. State of Orissa and Others referred to
2021 The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Ashish Awasthi referred to
2021 The Secretary to Govt. Department of Education (primary) & Ors. v. Bheemesh Alias Bheemappa mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to · 1 mentioned

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