Supreme Court of India

Delhi Transport Corporation v. D.T.C. Mazdoor Congress

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Reported as [1990] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 142

Bench Sabyasachi Mukharji, B.C. Ray, Lalit Mohan Sharma, P.B. Sawant and K. Ramaswamy JJ.

Decided 4 September 1990

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From the headnote

Service Law: Delhi Road Transport Act, 1950: Section 53/Delhi Road Transport Authority (Conditions of Appointment and Service) Regulations, 1952-Regulation 9(b )/Shastri Award-Para 522/ District Board Rules, 1926, Part V-Rule 1(1)/Indian Airlines Employees' Regulations-Regulation JJ/Air India Employees' Regulations-Re gulation 48-Validity of-Termination of service of permanent emp loyee without assigning any reasons and holding enquiry-Whether arbitrary, unfair, unjust, unreasonable and opposed to public policy Whether violative of Articles 12, 14, 16, 19, 31 and 311(2) of the Constitution

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1973 E. P. Royappa v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr. cited by 139
1958 Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia v. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Others cited by 108
1967 S.G. Jaisinghani v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 69
1975 Sukhdev Singh & Ors. v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh Raghuvanshi and Anr. cited by 47
1961 The Collector of Customs, Madras v. Nathella Sampathu Chetty and Another cited by 30
1959 Gherulal Parakh v. Mahadeodas Maiya and Others cited by 23
1953 Nalinakhya Bysack v. Shyam Sunder Haldar and Others cited by 20
1981 A.V. Nachane & Another v. Union of India & Another cited by 19
1969 State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Shardul Singh cited by 17
1978 Commissioner of Sales Tax, M.P. Indore and Ors. v. Radhakrishan and Ors. cited by 8
1973 Sirsi Municipality by its President Sirsi v. Cecelia Kom Francis Tellis cited by 7
1980 Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Warehousing Corporation & Anr. v. Vinay Narayan Vajpayee cited by 4
1978 Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. P. S. Malvenkar and Ors. cited by 1

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