Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Anr. v. Mahajabeen Akhtar

Neutral citation
Reported as [2007] 11 S.C.R. 807
Bench S.B. Sinha and Harjit Singh Bedi JJ.
Decided 1 November 2007

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

6 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the doctrine of equal pay for equal work has no application.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Service Law: Pay Scale-Revision in-Research Assistant working in Bureau of Promotion of Urdu Language (BPU) in pay scale of Rs.1640-2900- NCPUL constituted in place of BPU-Option given to employees of BPU to either get transferred to NCPUL or continue to work in Government Department-Respondent opted to stay in Government service as surplus-Deployed as Librarian-Application for upgradation of pay scale-Allowed by Tribunal on the ground that Research Assistant in BUP and Institutions like CHD, CIIL are similarly qualified and performing similar fanctions-Affirmed by High Court-On appeal, held:

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.