Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 876 · Decided 29 July 2008
Union of India v. Pushpa Rani & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 876 · [2008] 11 S.C.R. 440
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6934/2005
- Decided
- 29 July 2008
- Bench
- B.N. AGRAWAL, G.S. SINGHVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
r Service Law - Reservation - For Scheduled Castes! Scheduled Tribes - Availability of- At the stage of cadre re-. . . c structuring in the Railway service - Held: Polic~ pf reserva- tion is applicable at the stage of restructuring o( caqr~s in the Railway service - Since the additional posts of restructuring of different cadres are required to be filled by promotion, policy of reseryation cannot be ousted D - Such provision provided in the Letter .issu£;Jd by Railway Board is not violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution - Power of judicial review cannot be
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