The Supreme Court recently declined to interfere with the Gauhati High Court's ruling which ruled in favor of the retired employees granting them higher limit of gratuity set by the State Government. The Court said that once the State's regulation specifies a higher limit for the grant of gratuity, then there can't be discrimination regarding the disbursal of the amount of gratuity and every employee shall be given equal treatment.

A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi heard the case where a group of employees retired from the Assam Financial Corporation (“AFC”) between 2018 and 2019. Upon their superannuation, they were paid gratuity with a ceiling of ₹7 lakhs, as per the AFC's internal regulations, even though the Government of Assam had already raised the ceiling for it

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