Supreme Court of India

Shri Alvaro Noronha Ferriera & Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [1999] 2 S.C.R. 824
Bench S. Saghir Ahmed and K.T. Thomas JJ.
Decided 23 April 1999

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons we allow this appeal and direct the respondent Union of India to disburse the arrears of pay to the appellants calculating their scale of pay on a par with t!leir counterparts in the Union Territory .of Delhi during the period between 1.3.1982 and 31.3.1987.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Service Law : "Equal pay for equal work"-Judicial Officers-Working in two different Union territories-Nature of duties and responsibilities indentical-Disparity in pay scales-Validity of-Held, work pattern and pendency of cases at two different places cannot make the nature of work different-Burden to justifY differential treatment lies on the Government-Appellants entitled to parity in pay scales-Constitution of India, 1950-Articles 14, 16 and 39(d). Appellants were judicial officers posted in the Union Territory of Goa. They were fixed in the pay scales on par with their counterparts in

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