Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 686 · Decided 1 December 2004
Deb Narayan Shyam and ORS. v. State of West Bengal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 686 · [2004] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 551
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1179/2002
- Decided
- 1 December 2004
- Bench
- B.N. AGRAWAL, A.K. MATHUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 11; Evidence Act Section 115; Constitution Article 142
Headnote
Service Law: West Bengal Service (Revision of Pay and Allownace) Rules, 1961,­ Surveyors and Amins working in different Departments-Parity in pay scale by Amins with Surveyors-Claim of-Principle of 'Equal pay for equal work '-Applicability of~Held: Nature of duties and functions and essential of 'Equal pay for equal work' not applicable-Hence, Amin not entitled to claim parity in pay scale with Surveyor-However, various decisions of High Court giving parity in scale treating an earlier decision giving parity as precedent despite clear stipulation that it should not be treated
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