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PETITIONER:

SOM PRAKASH REKHI

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

UNION OF INDIA & ANR.

DATE OF JUDGMENT13/11/1980

BENCH:

KRISHNAIYER, V.R.

BENCH:

KRISHNAIYER, V.R.

REDDY, O. CHINNAPPA (J)

PATHAK, R.S.

CITATION:

1981 AIR 212 1981 SCR (2) 111

1981 SCC (1) 449

CITATOR INFO :

RF 1986 SC1499 (16)

R 1986 SC1571 (55)

R 1987 SC 51 (3)

R 1987 SC1086 (18)

APL 1988 SC 469 (9,10)

F 1989 SC1642 (24)

RF 1990 SC1167 (10,14)

RF 1992 SC 76 (2)

ACT:

Constitution of India-Burmah Shell (Acquisition of

Undertakings in India) Act, 1976-Company acquired by the

Government and vested in a statutory corporation-Corporation

if State-Test for determining whether a body is State within

the meaning of article 12.

HEADNOTE:

Under a voluntary retirement scheme in force in the

company the petitioner, a clerk in Burmah Shell Oil Storage

Ltd., retired voluntarily after qualifying for pension. The

pension payable to him was regulated by the terms of a trust

deed of 1950 under which a pension fund was set up and

regulations were made for it