Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1348 · Decided 25 November 2008
Board of Trustees for Port of Calcutta & ORS. v. Avijit Kumar Ray & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1348 · [2008] 16 S.C.R. 651
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6754/2008
- Decided
- 25 November 2008
- Bench
- TARUN CHATTERJEE, AFTAB ALAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
y Labour Laws - Recruitment - Trained apprentices and wards of employees dying in harness - Recruitment of, in the c ratio of 1:1 by Port Trust- However, practice discontinued - Challenge to, by 321 trained apprentices - Directions by High Court to give employment to died-in-harness category and restore the balance in quota - Reliance placed on Government Guidelines, circulars and b communications issued - Upheld by Division Bench - Sustainability of - Held: Not sustainable - Communication does not constitutes an unequivocal, unqualified and ~ enforceable
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