BSNL asked to pay salary to employee with disability till superannuation

Ahmedabad: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) here has ordered the payment of salary to a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) employee until the date of his retirement. He was prematurely retired after he was diagnosed with a mental illness.

The tribunal quashed BSNL’s decision to compulsorily retire the employee from the post of junior telecom officer, holding that protections under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, override the company’s service rules on premature retirement.