Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 735 · Decided 17 October 2014
State of Uttar Pradesh & ORS. v. Arvind Kumar Srivastava & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 735 · [2014] 12 S.C.R. 193
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9849/2014
- Decided
- 17 October 2014
- Bench
- JASTI CHELAMESWAR, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
Service jurisprudence - Service matters - Principles to A B be applied - Held: When a particular set of employees is given relief by the court, all other identically situated persons C need to be treated alike by extending that benefit, or else would amount to discrimination and would be violative the principle is subject to exceptions in the form of /aches and delays as well as acquiescence - Where judgment of the Court was in rem with intention to give benefit D to all similarly situated persons, whether they approached the Court or not, the obligation is cast upon the authorities to
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