High Court Of Punjab & Haryana vs Jagdev Singh on 29 July, 2016
At the stroke of superannuation of the said employee, asking
him to tender an undertaking, practically amounts to an
afterthought on the part of the employer and a mode of
compelling the candidate to execute an undertaking since they
are apprehensive that their retiral benefits would not be
released until such undertaking is executed. Such an
undertaking will not have the same sanctity of an undertaking
executed when the payment of revised pay scale had
commenced. We, therefore, respectfully conclude that the view
taken in High Court of Punjab and Haryana and others vs.
Jagdev Singh (supra), would not be applicable to the case of
these Petitioners, more so since the recovery is initiated after
their superannuation.