Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 7 · Decided 4 January 2001
State of Karnataka and ANR. v. B. Suvarna Malini and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 7 · [2001] 1 S.C.R. 72
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 27/2001
- Decided
- 4 January 2001
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, B.N. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 226, 227
Headnote
Service Law: Karna/aka State Civil Services (Absorption of Persons ll'orking as C Part-Time Lecturers in the Kamataka Education Departme/1/ of College Education) Special Rules, 1996: Rule 2(b){iii)-Certain persons 11•orking as part-lime lectures for 10 to 20 years-Due to in action State their regulart~wtion and Absorption Rules brought into force-However, High Court struck down the Rules a discriminatory-Correctness of-Held: Absolute equality among human beings is a physical impossibilif)~Arl. 14 guarantees similarity of treatment as contra-distinguished ji-om identical
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