VANDANA SREEMEDHA J Vs. STATE OF KERALA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Only a woman knows how acutely difficult it is to balance between motherhood and her career.

(2.) Life as a new mother is like being on a roller-coaster and being a working mother is tougher. The minutiae of motherhood can never be properly contemplated and it involves navigation through myriad daily issues, which ultimately determine the health and future of the child. The mother's constant proximity to the child is scientifically proven to be absolutely unexpendable and this, primarily and inter alia, is why the provisions for maternity leave are now internationally accepted.

(3.) I am beginning exordially as afore because the petitioner in this case has reached this Court after her request for maternity leave was turned down; and to then exacerbate the agony, she was terminated from service, accusing her of having been on unauthorised absence.