Supreme Court of India

Reserve Bank of India & Ors. v. C.N. Sahasranaman & Ors.

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Reported as [1986] 2 S.C.R. 881
Bench R.S. Pathak and Sabyasachi Mukharji JJ.
Decided 30 April 1986

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the scheme as modified by the Bank and as accepted by vast majority of their employees is a proper and just scheme and does not suffer from the vice of article 14 or article 16 or any other 'f constitutional guarantees.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

Centre-wise seniority and promotion through written departmental examlnor Reserve Bank of India (Staff) Regulations 1948 - Administrative Circular No. 8 and 9 dated 13.5.1972, clause ll(a)(i) of the Scheme for Promotion - Staff ' Officers Grade 11 (Now designated Grade ) covered under - r Whether part of the scheme is violative of guarantee of equality before law and equal opportunity ln Public employment ~ as enshrined in Article 14 and 16 of the Constitution - Industrial Disputes - Settlement by direct negotiations or through collective bargaining value of. The Reserve Bank of India had its

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Of those, 1 mentioned

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