Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 828 · Decided 12 December 2013
Deaf Employees Welfare Association & Another v. Union of India & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 828 · [2013] 16 S.C.R. 1059
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 107/2011
- Decided
- 12 December 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 21
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950 - Articles 14 and 21 - Conveyan_ce allowance, paid to disabled Government C employees (visually and orthopaedically disabled) - Demand of, by deaf and dumb Government employees - Denial by the Government - Held: Is violative of Articles 14 and 21 - any of the disabilities mentioned in s. 2(i) of Disabilities Act, entitled to benefit of all the Schemes and D benefits provided by the Government - There cannot be further discrimination among the persons with varied or different types of disabilities - Persons with Disabilities (Equal
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