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The Orissa High Court has directed the United Puri-Nimapara Central Cooperative Bank Ltd. to grant higher salary benefits to a 54-year-old woman who worked as a cashier for over 23 years but was paid a peon's wage.
According to the case W.P.(C) No.32917 of 2011, Justice MS Raman ruled that employees cannot be denied fair compensation if they perform higher responsibilities, quashing the bank's 2011 order that regularised her as a peon despite her cashier duties.
Tilottama Baliarsingh was appointed as a temporary peon (Grade VII) at the bank's Mahila branch in Puri on July 17, 1999, under a rehabilitation scheme after her husban...