Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 264 · Decided 17 April 2013
Jatya Pal Singh & ORS. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 264 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 970
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2147/2010
- Decided
- 17 April 2013
- Bench
- S.S. NIJJAR, ANIL R. DAVE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 12, 226
Headnote
CONSTITUTION OF IND/A, 1950: c Arts. 12 and 226 - Writ petitions before High Court by employees of VSNL (renamed TCL) challenging termination of their services - Held: Are not maintainable - Government of India holding only 26.12% shares of TCL, would not be in control of affairs of TCL - TCL 0 authority' within Art. 12 - Merely because TCL is performing the functions which were initially performed by OCS would not be sufficient to hold that it is performing a public function - The functions performed by VSNUTCL are not of such nature which could be said to be a public function -
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