Supreme Court of India

K.C. Sharma and Ors. v. Union of India

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Reported as [1997] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 87
Decided 25 July 1997

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that this was a fit case in which the Tribunal should have cor.doned D the delay in the filing of the application and the appellants should have been given relief in the same terms as was granted by the Full Bench of the Tribunal.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Service Law: Indian Railways Establishment L'ode-Rule 2544----Railway employees retired between 1.1.73 and 5.12.88--Notifications amended Rule and reduced percentage limit of rnnning allowance while calculating average emoluments, by retrospective operatiort-Tribunal quashed notifications as they adversely affected employees-Application by similarly placed employees for same relief-Rejected by the Tribunal as time barred-Held, Tribunal should have ~~~~~~~~. Appellants had reti_red from Northern Railway after 1.1.73 but before 5.12.88. They were aggrieved by notification dated 5.12.88 which

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 1 referred to

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