Supreme Court of India

R. Muthukumar & Ors. v. The Chairman and Managing Director Tangedco & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 1 S.C.R. 577
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat and Bela. M. Trivedi JJ.
Decided 7 February 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing, it is held that the aggrieved appellants, and the respondent applicants (in TANGEDCO’s appeal) could not claim the benefit of parity; their writ petitions were founded on the compromise order, which cannot be justified in law.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Service Law: Concession-based orders – Public emplo yer conceding in course of proceedings to a compromise – Such compromise, when not justified – Held: Fairness demands that publ ic bodies, as model employers, do not pursue untenable s ubmissions – In such cases, a concession, which is based on law, and accord s to a just interpretation of the concerned law and/o r rules, is sustainable – However, it is altogether another thing for a public employer, whose conduct is questioned, and who has succeed ed on the merits of the case before the lower forum to volun tarily agree, in an unreasoned

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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