Supreme Court of India

Canara Bank and Anr. v. M. Mahesh Kumar

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Bench T.S. Thakur and R. Banumathi JJ.

Decided 15 May 2015

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From the headnote

Service Law: Appointment- Compassionate appointment- Claim for - Under compassionate appointment scheme of 1993 of the employer-Bank - Rejection of claim by the Bank - During pendency of the case for seeking consideration of the claim, compassionate appointment scheme replaced with the scheme of'ex-gratia payment' of 2005- Entitlement to the claim of compassionate appointment - Held: Claim of compassionate appointment under a scheme of a particular year cannot be decided in the light of the subsequent scheme that came into force much after the claim - In the present case, cause of action…

Authorities it was built on

2000 Balbir Kaur and Anr. v. Steel Authority of India Ltd. and Ors. cited by 5
2008 Steel Authority of India v. Madhusudan Das & Ors. cited by 5
2013 Mgb Gramin Bank v. Chakrawarti Singh cited by 5
2011 Bhawani Prasad Sonkar v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 4
2007 State Bank of India and Ors. v. Jaspal Kaur cited by 4
2000 Sanjay Kumar v. The State of Bihar and Ors. cited by 2
2003 State of Manipur v. Md. Rajaodin cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2020 Indian Bank & Ors. v. Promila & Anr. relied on
2025 Canara Bank v. Ajithkumar G.K. followed
2022 Central Bank of India v. Nitin referred to
2020 N. C. Santhosh v. State of Karnataka & Ors. referred to
2019 State Bank of India & Ors. v. Sheo Shankar Tewari referred to
2019 State of Himachal Pradesh and Anr. v. Parkash Chand referred to
2019 State of Himachal Pradesh & Anr v. Shashi Kumar referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 followed · 5 referred to

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