Supreme Court of India

Board of Trustees for Port of Calcutta & Ors. v. Avijit Kumar Ray & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 16 S.C.R. 651
Bench Tarun Chatterjee and Aftab Alam JJ.
Decided 25 November 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the orders passed by • High Court are plainly unsustainable.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

y Labour Laws - Recruitment - Trained apprentices and wards of employees dying in harness - Recruitment of, in the c ratio of 1:1 by Port Trust- However, practice discontinued - Challenge to, by 321 trained apprentices - Directions by High Court to give employment to ex-trade apprentices along with died-in-harness category and restore the balance in quota - Reliance placed on Government Guidelines, circulars and b communications issued - Upheld by Division Bench - Sustainability of - Held: Not sustainable - Communication does not constitutes an unequivocal, unqualified and ~ enforceable

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