S Ananthaswamy vs The Union Of India on 9 July, 2010
9. In 11riiya].__«-- Cpntentions, I have carefully
examined 'the. V with reference to the various
documents"»__proVduc_edA'_ the judgments relied upon. It
emerges that the-.und_iAsputed facts as adverted to herein above
would ma1{e.iit"c1ear that the petitioner had applied for voluntary
retiirement.'."'v»«Voliintary Retirement scheme was introduced on
V . '1he petitioner had applied on 31.01.2000 and the
",:sa..=:1e_ was accepted and communicated on 09.03.2001 by the
.0 to the petitioner. After the voluntary retirement
"application was accepted by the Bank, the petitioner has made
the request for withdrawal of the voluntary retirement on
ié
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27.04.2001 vide AnneXure-D. As is clear from the judgment of
the Apex Court rendered in the case of Punjab and Sind Bank &
Another Vs. S.Ranveer Singh Bawa & Another LLJ
573}, the Voluntary Retirement Scheme
nature and it constituted invitation and not anefferp and'--th.:1_t no
consideration passed in terms of the SChenmeA'eS.Of tas'-to"bfensv:t:itute
an agreement. Therefore, thekrevofcation
effective at any time before 'asfup ftiothefldate of such
acceptance no legal observation which
is found in paragraph--3AA.0.fV:f't_he judgment of the
Apex Court judgments in the case of
Bank of India 2003 so 858). in the
light it has to be stated that
though fitfis writ petition that the scheme
provides forka_:unilatei*alfdecision on the part of the Bank to
rtrejectfffvtfhefv application filed and it makes the
"seeking Voluntary retirement irrevocable which
tantamount's__to an arbitrary condition, the effect of the same is
'*..that while the employee can withdraw the application filed by
"1i§i?t1"S€eking voluntary retirement before it was accepted he had
0' no right to Withdraw the same once the same is accepted by the
Bank. In that View of the matter, it cannot be said that the
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action of the Bank in the instant case which has refused to
entertain the request of the petitioner to withdraw his
application filed seeking voluntary retirement after the same
was accepted by it cannot be termed as arbitrary or unjust. In
fact, the consideration of the Validity of the c}ause._containVedV in
11.5.0 does not arise in this case as the
arbitrarily refused the app1icant'sgrepresentationfto iwithdrawbfp
the request made for voluntary 9:'retirernentvifbeforefv
accepted by it and in fact it was
already accepted by 'acceptance was
admittedly communicatetilhflto As can be seen
from the facts narra._ted the withdrawal application
submitted 'the applicarit_.xits_elf makes reference to the fact of
acceptance ofpvoluntfafry Vrethrernent application submitted by the
petitioner and ._:Vits..v'cornmL.1nication to him.