Sadhan Datta vs State Of Tripura And Ors. on 26 June, 2007
17. The Supreme Court in (North Zone Cultural Centre and Anr v. Vedpathi Dinesh Kumar) while following its earlier decision in Raj Kumar (supra) and in reference to the other judgments of Supreme Court in Raj Narain v. Indira Nehru Gandhi ; Union of India v. Wing Commander T. Parthasarathy (2001) 1 SCC 158 has observed that the resignation becomes effective on acceptance even if not communicated. Non communication of the acceptance does not make the resignation inoperative provided there is in fact an acceptance before the withdrawal when the relevant rules not postulating communication of acceptance as a condition precedent for coming into effect of resignation. Employee tendering resignation with immediate effect and employer accepting the same on the same day but communicating the acceptance to the employee after 13 days. During the intervening period, the employee withdrawing his resignation. Such delay of mere 13 days, held, not an undue delay so as to infer that resignation has not already been accepted. Even the continued attendance to duty and signing of attendance register by the said employee during the intervening period held, of no assistance to claim that the resignation had not taken effect. More so, when there was no responsible officer in the office during that time and taking the advantage of that situation the employee had marked his attendance, hence the High Court's decision holding that communication of the acceptance of resignation subsequent to withdrawal of the resignation by the employee had become redundant was held improper.