Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 52 · Decided 26 March 1980
Katyani Dayal and ORS. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 52 · [1980] 3 S.C.R. 139
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 147/1976
- Decided
- 26 March 1980
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, R.S. PATHAK, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
' Temporary Assistanl Engineers, gazetted -service recruited by Railway Board -Neither cla.ssi/ied as Class I or Class 11 but given the junior scale of pry of Jndian Service of Engineers Class I, and eligible to be considered for absorption in permanent vacancies as per quota fixed per them purely temporary: offends Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution-Constitution of 'India Arlidu 53, 73(1) (a) and 109-lndian Railway Establishment Ru/ea 102(3) (13), UIS, 106-109, 112, 116, 118(i), 125, 129, 130-133, 140 and RJJ/e 20Q3(3), (22), (211), (30), (31). Several assignments such as
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