Supreme Court of India
Katyani Dayal and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
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We are of the view that the Allahabad High Court was not justified in looking at the amended definition of 'Assistant Officer' in isolation and concluding that the expression 'Assistant Officer' included Temporary Assistant Officer because Temporary Assistant Officer was also a gazetted Railway servant who drew the junior scale of pay.
Judgment, page 29
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Temporary Assistanl Engineers, gazetted -service recruited by Railway Board -Neither cla.ssi/ied as Class I or Class 11 but given the junior scale of pry of Jndian Service of Engineers Class I, and eligible to be considered for absorption in permanent vacancies as per quota fixed per year-Whether belong to the cadre of Indian Service of Engineers-Whether treating them purely temporary: offends Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution-Constitution of 'India Arlidu 53, 73(1) (a) and 109-lndian Railway Establishment Ru/ea 102(3) (13), UIS, 106-109, 112, 116, 118(i), 125, 129, 130-133, 140 and
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