Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 434 · Decided 26 April 2023
State of Gujarat & ORS. ETC. v. DR. P. A. Bhatt & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 434 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 301
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8553/2014
- Decided
- 26 April 2023
- Bench
- V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN, PANKAJ MITHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 174, 176; Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
Service Law : Equal Pay - Allopathy doctors and doctors of indigenous medicine-, if can be said to be performing "equal work" so as to be entitled to "equal pay Non-MBBS medical officers seeked extension of the benefit of higher scales of pay on parity on the basis of the recommendations of Tikku Pay Commission - - Held: Classification based upon educational qualification for the grant of higher pay scale, is a valid classification - Both categories of doctors are certainly not performing equal work to be entitled to equal
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