Supreme Court of India
Deepika Singh v. Central Administrative Tribunal and Others
INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.
3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
We hold that the appellant was entitled to the grant of maternity leave.
Judgment, page 19
From the headnote
Service Law: Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules 1972: r. 43 – Maternity leave – Entitlement to – Female government servant-nursing officer applied for maternity leave on the birth of her first biological child when she had already taken the benefit of child care leave in respect of the two children born to her spouse from his first marriage – Rejected by the tribunal as also the High Court – On appeal, held: Independent of the grant of maternity leave, a woman is also entitled to the grant of child care leave for taking care of her two eldest surviving children whether for rearing or for looking after any of their needs, such as education, sickness and the like…
Authorities it was built on
- 2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2009 Suchita Srivastava & Anr. v. Chandigarh Administration
- 2000 Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Female Workers (muster Roll) and Anr.
- 2013 Bad Shah v. Sou.urmila Badshah Goose & Anr
- 2019 K. H. Nazar v. Mathew K. Jacob & Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 K. Umadevi v. Government of Tamil Nadu & Ors.
- 2022 Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. & Ors. v. Mr. Deepak Aggarwal & Ors.
- 2023 Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr v. Union of India
Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned · 1 explained
Sign in free to read it
- The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
- The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
- Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
- Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
- Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
An email address, no password.