Supreme Court of India

Federation of Railway Officers Association and Ors. v. Union of India

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Reported as [2003] 2 S.C.R. 1085

Bench S. Rajendra Babu and G.P. Mathur JJ.

Decided 13 March 2003

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Railways Act, I989-Section 3-Formation of new railway zones Recommendation for formation of 4 zones in I984 by Railway Reforms Committee approved by Study Group-Thereafter formation of 3 more zones- Views from different quarters against the formation-Formation of 7 zones challenged as violative of Section 3 as the same was not on the basis of administrative efficiency-Formation of 3 zones not being based on expert study alleged to be malajide-Petition dismissed by High Court-In Special Leave Petition, held: Formation of the zones is valid-Factors considered for formation of zones by Study

Authorities it was built on

1970 Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India cited by 72
1991 Bangalore Medical Trust v. B.S. Muddappa and Ors. cited by 15

Where later benches applied it

2016 Centre for Public Interest Litigation v. Union of India & Ors. relied on
2015 State of M.P. & Ors. v. Mala Banerjee relied on
2011 Union of India & Ors v. J.D. Suryavanshi relied on
2021 The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. v. Principal Abhay Nandan Inter College & Ors. referred to
2021 Small Scale Industrial Manufactures Association (regd.) v. Union of India and Others referred to
2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors referred to
2014 M/s Siemens Aktiengeselischaft & S. Ltd. v. Dmrc Ltd. & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to

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