Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 34 · Decided 4 February 1987
Catering Cleaners of Southern Railway ETC. v. Union of India & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 34 · [1987] 2 S.C.R. 164
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 19/1986
- Decided
- 4 February 1987
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, V. KHALID (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
"Labour only contracting" or "Inside contracting system" adopted by the Southern, South Central and South Eastern Railways in respect of catering cleaners while the other units of the Indian Railway have abolished it-Whether a writ of mandamus lie in a petition under Article 32 light of the provisions of s.10 of the Contract Labour (Abolition and Regulation) Act, 1970-The Contract Labour (Abolition and Regulation) Central Rules, 1971, section 25(ii)(iv) and 25(ii)(v)(a) and (b). D More than a quarter of a century ago, in the Standard Vacuum Refining Company v. Its
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