Supreme Court of India

Food Corporation of India & Ors. v. Bhartiya Khadya Nigam Karmchari Sangh & Anr.

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Reported as [2012] 1 S.C.R. 230
Bench D.K. Jain and Anil R. Dave JJ.
Decided 13 January 2012

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, the decision of the High Court, holding the said Circular to be discriminatory and C in violation of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution cannot be sustained.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

CONSTITUTION OF IND/ , 1950: c Article 14 - Classification between two sets of employees - Grant of incentives only to the in-service employees of the · FCJ, who acquired professional qualifications after entering in service and denial of the same to those who had acquired the same professional qualifications before entering the service 0 - Reasonableness of classification - Held: The classification sought to be made by the FCJ between the two sets of employees bore a just and rational nexus to the object sought to be achieved by introducing the said incentive scheme - Judged from this point

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