Supreme Court of India

Jatya Pal Singh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 2 S.C.R. 970
Bench Surinder Singh Nijjar and Anil R. Dave JJ.
Decided 17 April 2013

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CONSTITUTION OF IND/ , 1950: c Arts. 12 and 226 - Writ petitions before High Court by employees of VSNL (renamed TCL) challenging termination of their services - Held: Are not maintainable - Government of India holding only 26.12% shares of TCL, would not be in control of affairs of TCL - TCL cannot be said to be 'other 0 authority' within Art. 12 - Merely because TCL is performing the functions which were initially performed by OCS would not be sufficient to hold that it is performing a public function - The functions performed by VSNUTCL are not of such nature which could be said to be a

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