Supreme Court of India
All India Station Masters' & Assistant Station Master's Association & Others v. General Manager, Central Railways and Others
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For the reasons mentioned above, we dismiss the app.lication, but in view of all the circumstances, we order that parties will bear their own costs.
Judgment, page 9
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State Employmmt-Equality of opportunity in matters of promotion-Concept and meaning of-Constitution of India, Art. r6(r). The Roadside Station Masters of the Central Railway challenged the constitutionality of promotion for guards to higher grade station masters' posts. The petitioners contended that the channel of promotions amounted to a denial of equal opportunity as between Roadside Station Masters and Guards in the matter of promotion and thus contravened the provisions of Art. r6(r) of the Constitution, as taking advantage of this channel of promo tions, guards become station masters
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