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PETITIONER:

TELECOMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTRE SCIENTIFICOFFICERS (CLASS

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

UNION OF INDIA & OTHERS

DATE OF JUDGMENT16/01/1987

BENCH:

VENKATARAMIAH, E.S. (J)

BENCH:

VENKATARAMIAH, E.S. (J)

SINGH, K.N. (J)

CITATION:

1987 AIR 490 1987 SCR (1)1007

1987 SCC (1) 582 JT 1987 (1) 152

1987 SCALE (1)62

ACT:

Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 14 and 16: Civil

Services-Pay parity--Scientific and Technical Officers,

class I, Telecommunication Research Centre--Direct recruits

through Union Public Service Commission--Denied special pay

admissible to--Departmental Transferred Officers Class

I--Held discriminatory and ultra vires.

HEADNOTE:

The recruitment to Class I posts in the Telecommunica-

tion Research Centre of the Posts and Telegraphs Department

is made partly by direct recruitment through the Union

Public Service Commission and partly through transfer of

Group A and Group B Field Officers. The officers brought

into the Centre on transfer were being paid special pay in

addition to their pay. The direct recruits were denied this

privilege.