Supreme Court of India

Abid Hussain and Others Etc. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [1987] 2 S.C.R. 47
Bench E.S Venkataramiah and M.P. Thakkar JJ.
Decided 22 January 1987

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Constitution of India, Articles 14 and 32: :Air-Conditioned Coach Incharges-Attendants, Northern Railway-Discriminated against in payment of overtime allowance-Held not justified. / The petitioners, Air-Conditioned Coach Incbarges-Attendants in Northern Railway, contended in their writ petitions that their counterparts in Western, Central and Eastern Railways were being .Paid overtime allowance for extra duty hours exceeding 96 hours in two weeks, and sought a direction to the Union of India and Railway Administration to pay them the same allowance. Allowing the writ petition, the Court,

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