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Article: Get sacked for abusive behaviour: SC.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- July 30, 2009
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Get sacked for abusive behaviour: SC
New Delhi, Jul 30 (PTI) An employee can be sacked if he uses abusive language against his superior even if he/she had been assigned work which is not part of his original job, the Supreme Court of India has ruled.
A bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and H S Bedi passed the ruling while upholding an appeal filed by Kolkata-based Biecco Lawrie Ltd which had sacked one of its employees Provash Chandra Mondal more than 24 years ago.
The company argued that Mondal, who was appointed as a general mazdoor, had resorted to abusive language against his superiors after he was entrusted certain work which was not part ...