In Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Female Workers (Muster Roll) (2000), what did the Supreme Court…

In MCD v Female Workers (Muster Roll) (2000), the Court said "there is no justification for denying the benefit of this Act to casual workers". It directed that maternity benefits be given to the women muster-roll employees of the Corporation. Reading the law as covering only regular employees, or as not applying to the Corporation, was rejected as a narrow way of looking at the problem. The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 has since been replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020, which carries maternity benefit forward.