Supreme Court of India

All India Railway Institute Employees' Association through the General Secretary v. Union of India through the Chairman

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Reported as [1990] 1 S.C.R. 594
Bench Ranganath Misra, P.B. Sawant and K. Ramaswamy JJ.
Decided 27 February 1990

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that there is a mate- rial difference between the canteens run in the Railway establish- ments, and the Railway Institutes and Clubs.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Railway Institutes and Clubs-Employees-Whether entitled to be treated on par with employees in Statutory Canteens run by Railway Administration. This petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India has been filed by an Association of about 2,000 employees working in 500 Railway Institutes and Clubs in various parts of the country claiming that they should be treated on the same par as the employees in the Statutory Canteens run by the Railway Administration. In support of their claim the petitioners while enumerating the range of activities handled by them, they have attempted to draw

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