Bhel Superannuated Executive Forum (Delhi) vs. Union Of India

Corrected ITEM NO.4+36 Court 4 (Video Conferencing) SECTION XI-A S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s).16721-16722/2019 (Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 12-10-2018 in WPC No. 602/2015 12-10-2018 in WPC No. 13120/2015 passed by the High Court Of Kerala At Ernakulam) UNION OF INDIA Petitioner(s) VERSUS SUNIL KUMAR B. & ORS. Respondent(s) (IA No. 6498/2021 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 109139/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 109137/2020 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 6497/2021 - PERMISSION TO PLACE ADDITIONAL FACTS AND GROUNDS) WITH W.P.(C) No. 233/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 69/2018 (X) (IA No. 14965/2018 - EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No. 141/2018 (X) (IA No. 26357/2018 - EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No. 118/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 250/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 372/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 368/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 369/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 367/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 371/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 380/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 374/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 385/2018 (X) Digitally signed by Indu Marwah Date: 2021.02.09 15:50:03 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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W.P.(C) No. 393/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 395/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 406/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 360/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 411/2018 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.63451/2018-APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS) W.P.(C) No. 466/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 804/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 594/2018 (X) (IA No.79752/2018-PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES) W.P.(C) No. 884/2018 (X) (IA No. 170508/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 146221/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 778/2018 (X) (IA No. 69081/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 170449/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 874/2018 (X) (IA No. 44627/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 1149/2018 (X) (IA No. 117553/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES IA No. 144028/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) W.P.(C) No. 1167/2018 (X) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1917-1918/2018 in C.A. No. 10013-10014/2016 (XIV-A) (IA No. 85695/2019 - DELETING THE NAME OF PETITIONER/RESPONDENT IA No. 147085/2018 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 147082/2018 - PERMISSION TO FILE APPLICATION FOR DIRECTION) W.P.(C) No. 1430/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 1433/2018 (X) W.P.(C) No. 1428/2018 (X)

W.P.(C) No. 390/2019 (X) (IA No. 43954/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY) W.P.(C) No. 269/2019 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 875/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 349/2019 (X) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 327/2019 (X) (IA No. 43329/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 84636/2019 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT) W.P.(C) No. 466/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 352/2019 (X) (IA No. 46449/2019 - STAY APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 512/2019 (X) (IA No. 92886/2019 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION) W.P.(C) No. 511/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 500/2019 (X) (IA No. 62534/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY IA No. 86926/2019 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 86923/2019 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 619-620/2019 in C.A. No. 10013-10014/2016 (XIV-A) (FOR ADMISSION) W.P.(C) No. 601/2019 (X) (IA No. 73827/2019 - EX-PARTE STAY) R.P.(C) No. 1430-1431/2019 in SLP(C) No. 8658-8659/2019 (XI-A) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.72854/2019-PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES and IA No.72855/2019-APPLICATION FOR LISTING REVIEW PETITION IN OPEN COURT) W.P.(C) No. 1312/2019 (X) W.P.(C) No. 832/2019 (X) (IA No. 98935/2020 - EARLY HEARING APPLICATION) Diary No(s). 22242/2019 (XIV-A) W.P.(C) No. 1218/2020 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.107579/2020-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) W.P.(C) No. 1332/2020 (X)

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ITEM NO.36

Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s). 1459/2020 (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.134289/2020-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.) Date : 29-01-2021 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. RAVINDRA BHAT For Petitioner(s) Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Thawani, Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Mr. Neeraj Chowdhury, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Somanatha Padhan, AOR Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Advocate Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, AOR Mr. Ramjee Pandey, AOR Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr.Rajesh Gupta; Advocate, Mr.Harpreet Singh, Advocate, Mr.Sumit R. Sharma AOR; Mr.Ajay Chandra, Advocate Mr.Pranjal Saran, Advocate Mr Anand Padmanabhan Advocate Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi (AOR) Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash (Advocate) Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh (Advocate) Mr. Abhishek Tripathi (Advocate) Ms. Vani Vyas (Advocate) Ms. Sujata Muni (Advocate) Mr. Amit (Advocate) Mr K. K. Venugopal, (AGI)Sr. Adv. for Union of India and Employees' Provident Funds Organisation Mr Vikramjit Bannerjee,( ASG)Sr. Adv. Mr C. A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. Mr Siddharth, AOR Mr Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR for Union of India

	Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv.<br>Mr Siddhant Kohli, Adv.<br>Mr Amit Kumar Agrawal, Adv.<br>Mr Prashant Rawat, Adv.
	Mr. Anip Sachthey, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Aditya Dhawan, Adv.<br>Ms. Anjali Chauhan, Adv.<br>Ms. Ria Sachthey, Adv.<br>M/S<br>Ars Associates, AOR
	Mr. Anand Varma, AOR<br>Mr. Abhishek Prasad, Advocate
	Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR<br>Mrs.<br>Lalita Kaushik, AOR
	Mr. Shashank Shekhar,Advocate,<br>Ms. Sheetal Rajput, Adv.<br>Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR
	Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Advocate<br>Mr. Saksham Maheshwari, Advocate<br>Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR
	Mr. Rahul Pratap, AOR
	Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, AOR<br>Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR<br>Petitioner-in-person<br>Mr. Anil Nag, AOR
	Mr Mohan Parasaran, Senior Advocate.<br>Mr.Ashwin Kumar DS, Advocate.<br>Mr.Vishnu Kumar, Advocate<br>Mr.Aditi Dani, Advocate.<br>Mr. Surbhi Mehta, AOR.
For Respondent(s)	Dr.K.P.Kylasanatha Pillay, Sr. Advocate<br>Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR
	Mr. Ashok K. Gupta, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Ikshita Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao,<br>Adv. (AOR).
	M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR
	Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR

Mr. Benny P. Thomas, Adv.* Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr.Eshna Kumar, Advocate Mr. Siddharth, AOR Mr. Sameer Parekh, Adv. Mr. D.P Mohanty, Adv. Ms. S.Lakshmi Iyer, Adv. Mr. Ishan Nagar, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Gaur, Adv. M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Puneet Taneja, AOR Mr. Adarsh Tripathi, Advocate Ms. Laxmi Advocate Mr.Mohit Rohatgi Advocate Mr.Rajendra Dangwal Advocate Mr.Kaustub Narendran Advocate Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR Mr. Sachin Datta, Senior, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kaushik, Aor Ms. Bhuvneshwari Pathak, Adv Ms. Shilpi Satyapriya Satyam, Adv Mr. Preet Pal Singh, AOR Ms. Sangeeta Bharti, Advocate Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR(R5&6) Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR Mr. Rajivkumar, AOR Mr. Anil Nag, AOR Mr Mohan Parasaran, Senior Advocate. Mr. Ashwin Kumar DS, Advocate. Mr.Vishnu Kumar, Advocate Mr.Aditi Dani, Advocate. Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR

Mr. Jamshed Pesi Cama, Sr. Adv.*

Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Ms. Natasha Sahrawat, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Adv. M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Raghenth Basant, Advocate Ms. Mahamaya Chatterjee, Advocate Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR Mr.Roy Abraham, Adv. Ms Reena Roy, Adv Mr.Akhil Roy, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Mr. R.K. Kapoor, Advocate Ms. Kheyali Singh, (Newly Appointed)AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

Review Petition (Civil)Nos.1430-1431 of 2019 in SLP(C)Nos.8658-8659 of 2019

SLP(C) Nos.8658-59/2019 challenging the judgment and order dated 12.10.2018 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala in Writ Petition (C) 602/2015 and 13120/2015 were dismissed by this Court on 1.4.2019.

Thereafter, SLP(C) Nos. 16721-22/2019 at the instance of Union of India challenging the same judgment dated 12.10.2018 came up before this Court on 12.07.2019. While condoning the delay in preferring the SLPs, this Court directed that said SLPs be listed along with Review Petition (C) Nos.1430-31/2019 (which had since then been preferred against the order dated 01.04.2019 in SLP(C) Nos.8658-59/2019) in open Court.

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Mr. C.A. Sundaram, learned Senior Advocate appearing for the petitioners in said Review Petitions invited our attention to the order dated 21.12.2020 passed by another Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala by which the correctness of the earlier decision dated 12.10.2018 was doubted and the matter was referred to Full Bench of the High Court.

Mr. Sundaram, also invited our attention to the decision of this Court in M/s Pawan Hans Ltd. & Ors. vs. Aviation Karmachari Sanghatana & Ors [2020(2)SCALE 194] and specially paragraph 6.6 of the decision.

It was submitted that as a result of the directions issued by the High Court in its order dated 12.10.2018, benefit would get conferred upon employees retrospectively which, in turn, would create great imbalance.

Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners and perused the relevant material, in our view SLP(C) Nos.8658-59/2019 call for a closer look. We, therefore, allow these review petitions and recall the order dated 01.04.2019* and direct;

(a) Let SLP(C) Nos.8658-59/2019 along with all connected matters be listed for preliminary hearing before the appropriate Court on 25.02.2021.

(b) Learned counsel appearing for the parties are at liberty to file short synopsis before the next date of hearing.

(INDU MARWAH) (PRADEEP KUMAR) COURT MASTER (SH) BRANCH OFFICER