LAWS(CAL)-2020-12-4

SANDIPTA GANGOPADHYAY Vs. INDIAN BANK

Decided On December 04, 2020
Sandipta Gangopadhyay Appellant
V/S
INDIAN BANK Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The writ petitioner essentially has invoked the writ jurisdiction of the Court, to demand the payment of back-wages. The petitioner has alleged that such payment of back-wages is due to him as a result of the unjustified prolongation of suspension imposed by his employer, the Respondent Bank.

(2.) The petitioner is currently in the employ of the Indian Bank, posted as the incumbent Senior Manager of the aforesaid bank in its Stressed Asset Management Branch in Kolkata. Such employment is a result of the amalgamation of Indian Bank along with his erstwhile employers, the Allahabad Bank, which based on the decision of the Union Ministry of Finance to merge certain public sector banks, provided for such merger under The Amalgamation of Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank Scheme, 2020 , vide notification no. GSR 156(E) dated March 4, 2020. As a consequence, with effect from April 1, 2020, the Allahabad Bank stands amalgamated into the Indian Bank.

(3.) The facts of the case possess a checkered history, and therefore, demand some elucidation.