The State Bank of India v. Edirisinghe and Others – sllr 1987 volume 1 page 395

In THE STATE BANK OF INDIA v. EDIRISINGHE AND OTHERS, the court addressed issues including the characterization of an employment dispute as a retiral situation, the validity of the arbitrator’s awards on pension, gratuity, unutilized leave encashment, and revision of salary allowance, and the extent of arbitral versus judicial power under the Industrial Disputes Act. It was held that the granting of pension was within the permissible scope of arbitral authority given the establishment of a retiral situation, but awards for unutilized leave encashment and salary revision were made in excess of jurisdiction where no supporting rule or applicability was demonstrated. The applicable legal principles established the distinction between arbitral discretion and the exercise of judicial power, rel