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Supreme Court: Principal Employer Not Liable to Pay Gratuity to Contractual Workers Absent Employer-Employee Relationship
Bench rules a Controlling Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act can compute dues but cannot decide who is liable to pay them.
Supreme Court: Conditional Court Deposit Doesn't Stop Interest Unless Award-Holder Can Freely Withdraw It
The Court rules that a deposit under Section 34 of the Arbitration Act must be unconditional to count as payment, in a dispute over interest on a ₹1.46 crore award.
Supreme Court: An Insurer's Office Doesn't Decide Which MACT Tribunal Gets Jurisdiction
Section 166(2) of the Motor Vehicles Act gives a claimant only three choices of forum — and the insurer's branch office isn't one of them, the Court holds in K. Rashik v. National Insurance Co.
Supreme Court: Multiplier For Bachelor's Motor Accident Death Must Follow Deceased's Age, Not Dependents'
Reversing a plea for a higher multiplier, the Court reaffirms that the age-based matrix set out in Sarla Verma and Pranay Sethi looks to the victim, not the claimant.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Compulsory Retirement of Trade Service Officer as 'Vitiated by Malice'
A promotion to Joint Secretary just weeks before the retirement order undercut the finding that the officer had become 'dead wood,' the Court held.
Supreme Court's e-Filing Push: What Litigants and Lawyers Need to Know
Electronic filing is no longer a convenience feature — for many categories of matters it is becoming the default channel.