Supreme Court of India

Prabhawati Devi v. The Union of India.

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Bench Punchhi and M.m JJ.
Decided 16 November 1995

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JUDGMENT: O R R Leave granted. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The appellant herein is the window of Late Bipin Kumar Rai who was a temporary Railway servant in this manner : He, initially, was taken in the Railway Establishment as a casual worker; and w.e.f. 27.4.83 he acquired the status of a ‘substitute’. According to the definition given in Rule 2315 of the terms and conditions applicable to ‘substitute’ in temporary service, they are persons engaged in the Indian Railway Establishments on regular scales of pay and allowances applicable to posts against which they are employed.

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