{"id":217329,"date":"2003-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/a-p-s-r-t-c-and-anr-vs-s-narsagoud-on-15-january-2003"},"modified":"2016-06-30T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T07:38:29","slug":"a-p-s-r-t-c-and-anr-vs-s-narsagoud-on-15-january-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/a-p-s-r-t-c-and-anr-vs-s-narsagoud-on-15-january-2003","title":{"rendered":"A.P.S.R.T.C. And Anr vs S. Narsagoud on 15 January, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">A.P.S.R.T.C. And Anr vs S. Narsagoud on 15 January, 2003<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R.C. Lahoti, Brijesh Kumar<\/div>\n<pre>           CASE NO.:\nAppeal (civil)  6362 of 2000\n\nPETITIONER:\nA.P.S.R.T.C. AND ANR.\n\nRESPONDENT:\nS. NARSAGOUD\n\nDATE OF JUDGMENT: 15\/01\/2003\n\nBENCH:\nR.C. LAHOTI &amp; BRIJESH KUMAR\n\nJUDGMENT:\n<\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>2003 (1) SCR 386<\/p>\n<p>The following Order of the Court was delivered<\/p>\n<p>The respondent was a Conductor, and hence a workman, in the employment of<br \/>\nthe appellant Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. He remained<br \/>\nabsent from duty between 5.6.1982 and 8.8.1982 on the first occasion and<br \/>\nagain between 13.10.1992 and 1.11.1992 on the second occasion. A<br \/>\nchargesheet was served on him alleging the period of absence to be an<br \/>\nunauthorised absence from duty. The respondent pleaded that he had remained<br \/>\nabsent because of ill health-due to jaundice for the first period of<br \/>\nabsence and due to chest pain and fever for the second period of absence<br \/>\nfrom duty. In the departmental inquiry proceedings the two charges<br \/>\nreferable to two periods of absence from duty framed against the respondent<br \/>\nwere found to be proved and the explanation for absence as offered by him<br \/>\nwas found not to have been substantiated. The respondent was inflicted with<br \/>\nthe punishment of removal from service.\n<\/p>\n<p>The respondent raised a dispute under Section 2(A)(2) of the Industrial<br \/>\nDisputes Act. 1947, as amended in its application to the State of Andhra<br \/>\nPradesh by A.P. Amendment Act No. 32 of 1987. The Labour Court by its Award<br \/>\ndated 24.12.1997 held that no fault could be found with the disciplinary<br \/>\ninquiry proceedings or with the findings arrived thereat. However, the<br \/>\nLabour Court concluded that though the respondent was guilty of the charges<br \/>\nlevelled against him but be had been without employment during the period<br \/>\nof absence and has suffered thereby and so the penalty of not providing<br \/>\nbackwages would be the appropriate penalty in the facts and circumstances<br \/>\nof the case, &#8220;while ordering for reinstatement with continuity of service&#8221;.<br \/>\nIn the operative part of its Award the Labour Court reiterated that an<br \/>\nAward was being passed &#8220;directing the respondent to reinstate the<br \/>\npetitioner in service with continuity of service but without backwages&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Feeling aggrieved by the Award of the Labour Court, the respondent<br \/>\npreferred a writ petition in the High Court which was heard and disposed of<br \/>\nby a learned single Judge vide the judgment dated 16.9.1999. A grievance<br \/>\nwas raised before the High Court that although the respondent was<br \/>\nreinstated, but while fixing the wages payable to him on his reinstatement,<br \/>\nthe periodical increments which would have been earned by him had he been<br \/>\nin service during the period of absence were not taken into account. The<br \/>\nHigh Court directed the appellant Corporation to compute the periodical<br \/>\nincrements that would have been earned by the respondent had he been in<br \/>\nservice during the period of absence from duty and to fix the wages payable<br \/>\nto the respondent after his reinstatement by taking into account the said<br \/>\nincrements. The appellant preferred an intra Court appeal which has been<br \/>\ndismissed by a Division Bench of the High Court by its impugned order. The<br \/>\nappellant has filed this appeal by special leave.\n<\/p>\n<p>The respondent has chosen to remain absent of notice having been served on<br \/>\nhim. Therefore, the hearing has been set down ex parte against him. The<br \/>\nonly submission made by the learned counsel for the appellant is that when<br \/>\nan employee remains unauthorisedly absent from duty and though he has been<br \/>\ndirected to be reinstated with continuity of service by a judicial order<br \/>\nunless and until there is a direction for release of consequential benefits<br \/>\nand specifically for the benefit of increments being given which the<br \/>\nemployee might have earned during the period of unauthorised absence from<br \/>\nduty merely because the employee has been allowed the benefit of continuity<br \/>\nof service the benefit of such increments cannot be released to him. The<br \/>\nbenefit of continuity of service only means that for the purpose of<br \/>\nseniority and pensionary benefits the period of absence shall be taken into<br \/>\naccount as spent on duty, submitted the learned counsel for the appellant.<br \/>\nIn support of his submission he has also invited our attention to the<br \/>\nprovisions of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation Employees<br \/>\n(Pay and Allowances) Regulations, 1964 and a circular issued thereunder by<br \/>\nA.P.S.R.T.C.\n<\/p>\n<p>The said Regulations have been framed and promulgated in exercise of the<br \/>\nstatutory powers conferred on the Corporation. Para 13 of the Regulations<br \/>\nprovides inter alia as under:-\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;13. (1) All duty in a post on a time-scale counts for increments in that<br \/>\ntime-scale.\n<\/p>\n<p>(2) Service in another post, whether in a substantive or officiating<br \/>\ncapacity, service on deputation and leave other than extraordinary leave or<br \/>\nleave without pay count for increments in the time-scale applicable to the<br \/>\npost on which the employee holds a lien, as well as in the time-scale<br \/>\napplicable to the post or posts, if any, on which he would hold a lien had<br \/>\nhis lien not been suspended:\n<\/p>\n<p>Provided that the competent authority shall have the power in any case in<br \/>\nwhich it is satisfied that the extraordinary leave or leave without pay, as<br \/>\nthe case may be, was taken on account of illness or any other cause beyond<br \/>\nthe employee&#8217;s control, to direct that such period shall count for<br \/>\nincrements under this clause.\n<\/p>\n<p>Explanation : Where an employee is appointed to officiate in a post on a<br \/>\ntime-scale of pay but has his pay fixed below the minimum of the time-scale<br \/>\nunder clause (5) of the regulation 9, the period of officiating service<br \/>\nshall not count for increments under clause (2) above<\/p>\n<p>xxx                                             xxx<br \/>\nxxx<br \/>\nXXX                                                XXX<br \/>\nXXX<\/p>\n<p>(8) A period of overstayal after the expiry of leave of joining time, as<br \/>\nthe case may be does not count towards increments unless it is commuted<br \/>\ninto extraordinary leave or leave without pay, as the case may be and<br \/>\nextraordinary leave, or leave without pay is specifically allowed to count<br \/>\nfor increments.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<pre>xxx                                   xxx\nxxx\n\nxxx                                   xxx\nxxx\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>On 8.9.1992, the Corporation issued Circular No. 19\/9 laying down<br \/>\nguidelines for implementation of the Awards of Labour Courts in the matter<br \/>\nof fixation of pay of employees reinstated pursuant to such Awards subject<br \/>\n&#8216;to result of writ petitions. The Circular provides inter alia as under: &#8211;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(2) When an employee is reinstated into service with continuity of service<br \/>\nonly, the last pay drawn by the employee has to be fixed at the appropriate<br \/>\nstage in the revised pay scale 1989 without adding any notional increment<br \/>\nfor the period out of service.\n<\/p>\n<pre>xxx                                    xxx\nxxx\n\nxxx                                    xxx\nxxx\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>(4) On fixation of pay as on the date of reinstatement annual increment may<br \/>\nbe regularly drawn.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<pre>xxx                                    xxx\nxxx\n\nxxx                                    xxx\nxxx\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>However, it appears that consequent upon the judgement of the learned<br \/>\nsingle Judge dated 16.8.1999. and other similar judgments disposing of the<br \/>\nwrit petitions, the Corporation was compelled to issue another circular<br \/>\nwhereby it directed that in view of the said judgments of the High Court it<br \/>\nwas necessary that in a case where an employee was directed to be<br \/>\nreinstated with continuity of service the pay of the employee shall be re-<br \/>\nfixed by giving notional increments for the period out of service though<br \/>\nthe monetary benefit of revised fixation shall be given only from the date<br \/>\nof reinstatement. The effect of the judgment of the learned single Judge,<br \/>\nupheld by the Division Bench and the Circular issued consequent upon the<br \/>\njudgment of the High Court is that the employee being reinstated, inspite<br \/>\nof having been held guilty of unauthorised absence from duty, continues to<br \/>\nearn increments though there is no payment of wages for the period of<br \/>\nabsence. This results into a incongruous situation, submitted the learned<br \/>\ncounsel for the appellant.\n<\/p>\n<p>We find merit in the submission so made. There is a difference between an<br \/>\norder of reinstatement accompanied by a simple direction for continuity of<br \/>\nservice and a direction where reinstatement is accompanied by a specific<br \/>\ndirection that the employee shall be entitled to all the consequential<br \/>\nbenefits, which necessarily flow frem reinstatement or accompanied by a<br \/>\nspecific direction that the employee shall be entitled to the benefit of<br \/>\nthe increments earned during the period of absence. In our opinion, the<br \/>\nemployee after having been held guilty of unauthorised absence from duty<br \/>\ncannot claim the benefit of increments notionally earned during the period<br \/>\nof unauthorised absence in the absence of a specific direction in that<br \/>\nregard and merely because he has been directed to be reinstated with<br \/>\nbenefit of continuity in service.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Regulations referred to hereinabove clearly spell out that the period<br \/>\nspent on the extraordinary leave or leave without pay or a period of over-<br \/>\nstayal after the expiry of leave or joining time cannot count towards<br \/>\nincrements; unless the order of the competent authority sanctioning the<br \/>\nextraordinary leave or leave without pay or the order commuting the period<br \/>\nof over-stayal into extraordinary leave or leave without pay is accompanied<br \/>\nby a specific order to count the period for increments. A period of<br \/>\nunauthorised absence from duty treated as a misconduct and held liable to<br \/>\nbe punished by way of penalty cannot be placed on a footing better than the<br \/>\nperiod of extraordinary leave or leave without pay or a period of over-<br \/>\nstayal. Ordinarily, the increments are earned on account of the period<br \/>\nactually spent on duty or during the period spent on leave the entitlement<br \/>\nto which has been earned on account of the period actually spent on duty.<br \/>\nThe direction of the High Court entitling the respondent to earn increments<br \/>\nduring the period of unauthorised absence from duty though held liable to<br \/>\nbe punished in departmental inquiry proceedings would amount to putting a<br \/>\npremium on the misconduct of the employee.\n<\/p>\n<p>For the foregoing reasons, we are of the opinion that the impugned judgment<br \/>\nof the learned single Judge of the High Court and upheld by the Division<br \/>\nBench cannot be sustained. The judgment of the learned single Judge and the<br \/>\nDivision Bench are, both, set aside. The appeal is allowed. No order as to<br \/>\nthe costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India A.P.S.R.T.C. And Anr vs S. Narsagoud on 15 January, 2003 Bench: R.C. Lahoti, Brijesh Kumar CASE NO.: Appeal (civil) 6362 of 2000 PETITIONER: A.P.S.R.T.C. AND ANR. RESPONDENT: S. NARSAGOUD DATE OF JUDGMENT: 15\/01\/2003 BENCH: R.C. LAHOTI &amp; BRIJESH KUMAR JUDGMENT: JUDGMENT 2003 (1) SCR 386 The following Order of the Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A.P.S.R.T.C. And Anr vs S. 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