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United Bank of India (now Punjab National Bank) v. Swapan Kumar Mullick & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1642
Bench Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan JJ.
Decided 22 July 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the Division Bench overstepped its bounds by directing the Board of Directors of the Bank to consider amending Regulation 22 even when the vires of such a regulation was not under challenge in Mullick’s writ petition. cOnclusIOn.

Judgment, page 32

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose to determine whether an employee resigning from service citing mental depression, after having served his employer much in excess of the period stipulated to qualify for being entitled to pension, forfeits his right to opt for pension in terms of a specific provision in the Pension Regulations for all times to come, or, in view of pension being a social welfare measure for employees in the winter years of their life, adopting a beneficial approach is permissible. Headnotes† Service Law – United Bank of India (Employees’) Pension Regulations, 1955 – Regn 22

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