Supreme Court of India

Gurdas Singh and Others Etc. v. State of Punjab and Others

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Reported as [2015] 9 S.C.R. 762
Bench M.Y. Eqbal and C. Nagappan JJ.
Decided 1 September 2015

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that in the special facts and circumstances of the present case, the appellants are entitled to get the pay-scale at par with the teachers of the respondent college inasmuch as they have been discharging the same duties and also possessing the required qualification.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Service Law: School cadre teachers- Transferred to the c college - Claim by teachers for parity of scale with the teachers of college - Held: Appellants teaching for last 25 years in the respondent-Institutions- In the special facts and circumstances of the case, the appellants are entitled to get the pay scale at par with the teachers of the respondent college inasmuch as they are discharging the same duties and also possessing the requisite qualification. Allowing the appeals, the Court HELD: 1. Appellant No.1 possessed requisite qualifications i.e. Shastri, Acharya and M. . (Sanskrit) and

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