1987 INSC 0137
                                        SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                                    Union of India

                                                           Vs.

                                                   Babu Ram Lalla

                                               C.A.No.1519 of 1973

                                        (M. P. Thakkar and B. C. Ray, JJ.)

                                                      20.02.1987

                                                       ORDER

1. We agree wholly with the reasoning and conclusion of the High Court. Since the order of
termination of service of the respondent was rightly held to be a nullity he was entitled to be paid
salary on the footing that he had always continued in service and the void order was never in
existence in the eye of law. The appeal, therefore, fails and is dismissed with no order as to costs.

         Appeal dismissed.