Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 244 · Decided 26 August 1988
Y.K. Mehta and ORS. v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 244 · [1988] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 604
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1239/1979
- Decided
- 26 August 1988
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 37, 39(d), 16(1), 39, 32; Service Rules
Headnote
Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1966: Doordarshan-Staff Artists-Whether Government Servants­ Whether entitled to parity in pay with their counterparts in Film Divi­ sion of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Constitution of India, Articles 14, 16, and involving performance of same nature of duties-Unreasonable and unjust to discriminate in the matter of pay. The Government by an order dated March 9, 1979 revised the fee scales- of certain categories of Staff Artists in Doordarshan with retrospective effect from January I,
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