Case Law Details
Contingency paid employees of Chhattisgarh State Power Holding Company Limited are entitled for maternity leave U/s. 38 of Chhattisgarh Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 2010
1. Every child has a right to love and be loved and to grow up in an atmosphere of love and affection and of moral and
material security and this is possible only if the child is brought up in a family. The most congenial environment would, of course, be that of the family of his biological parents.
2. The above-stated observation made by P.N. Bhagwati, J, speaking for the Supreme Court in the matter of Lakshmi Kant Pandey v. Union of India aptly and squarely applies to the facts of the present case, as maternity leave sought for by the petitioner for upbringing of a newly born child has been declined by the respondent authorities.
3. The distinguished question of law that has cropped-up for consideration is whether a female Government servant/
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