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State of Punjab and Ors. v. Amar Nath Goyal and Ors.

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 549
Bench Y.K. Sabharwal and B.N. Srikrishna JJ.
Decided 11 August 2005
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we set aside the common judgment and order of the High.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Constitution of India, I 950-Article 14--Central Government, by Official Memoranda, directing that dearness allowance as linked to the average All India Consumer Index would be treated as dearness pay for reckoning emoluments for the purpose of death-cum-retirement gratuity for employees who retired or died on or after I.4.I995-State Government extending the benefit for its employees and adopting the same cut-off date as fixed by the Central Government-Employees challenging the orders of the Governments on the ground that the cut-off date fixed is discriminatory and violative of Article I 4

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 distinguished · 7 referred to · 1 mentioned

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