SLP(C) No. 025380 / 2011

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Where an employer seeks recovery of monetary benefits paid in excess of an employee's entitlement due to an administrative error, courts will interfere with such recovery only when it would be iniquitous — that is, where the hardship caused to the employee far outweighs the employer's equitable right to recover. As analysed on casestatus.in, the employee's right eclipses the employer's recovery right when the recovery would be more unfair and unwarranted than the corresponding entitlement to reclaim the excess amount.