Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 389 · Decided 8 April 1997
State of Tamil Nadu and ANR. v. M.R. Alagappan and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 389 · [1997] 3 S.C.R. 717
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4684/1994
- Decided
- 8 April 1997
- Bench
- S.B. MAJMUDAR, M. JAGANNADHA RAO (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
B Se1Vice Law : Equal pay for equal w01k-Principle-,,<_pplicability of-Two sets of employees-Substalllially discharging same type of d11ties and the posts inter- C ciumgeable--Held : Did not 11ecesswily attract the doc/line of "equal pay for eq11al work" especially when there were special assig11111e11t, different seniority lists, etc.-Constitlltion of India, 1950, Arts. 14 and 16. Promotion-Chances of-Differentiation based 011 educational D qualifications-Held : Pennissible. The respondents were working as Deputy Agricultural Officers in the State Agricultural Extension
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