Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 199 · Decided 23 April 1999
Shri Alvaro Noronha Ferriera & ANR. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 199 · [1999] 2 S.C.R. 824
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1460/1994
- Decided
- 23 April 1999
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 39(d)
Headnote
Service Law : "Equal pay for equal work"-Judicial Officers-Working in two different C Union territories-Nature of duties and responsibilities indentical-Disparity in pay scales-Validity of-Held, work pattern and pendency of cases at two different places cannot make the nature of work to parity in pay scales-Constitution of India, 1950-Articles 14, 16 and 39(d). D Appellants were judicial officers posted in the Union Territory of Goa. They were fixed in the pay scales on par with their counterparts in Union Territory of Delhi. However, in the year 1982, the pay scales of
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