Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 200 · Decided 22 August 1969
General Manager, North East Frontier Railway v. Sachindra Nath Sen
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 200 · [1970] 2 S.C.R. 65
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1839/1967
- Decided
- 22 August 1969
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 111(2), 311(2), 226
Headnote
Indian Railway Establishment Code, Rules 14B and 149 Held invalid by Supreme Court as violative of Art. 311 (2) of ;_lie Constitution of India -Railway Board deciding that only employees wh.1se services were tern1i· nated under said Rules within a period of six ,vears before Supreme Court of lilnit of rix )'ears. The services of the respondent as an Assistant Traffic Superintendent on the North East Frontier Railway \vere terminated after one month's notice under Rule 148 of the Indian Raih\'av Estab.1\shment Code with effect from De<:<mber 2, 1957. An appeal
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