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The Court opined that both the contract teachers and the guest teachers are discharging same duties as they are teaching students in schools and thus, there is no difference between the contract teachers and the guest teachers.
“The act of terminating services of the petitioners, so as to deprive them of the benefits of Government Resolution was illegal and contrary to the principles of natural justice.”
“The fees levied by courts should not exceed the cost of administration of justice. The levy of fee by courts for grant of probate without an upper limit is a discriminatory class legislation without any rational nexus or reasonable differentia.”
The “Rules for Presentation and Conduct of Proceedings in Person by Parties” does not apply if a party desires to appear in person when the proceedings are related to applications for temporary bail, parole, furlough, and habeas corpus.
The new provisions which were introduced to cover international workers under the EPF Scheme, was held to be violative of Art. 14 of the Constitution.
“Petitioner is seeking to retain an advantage for the registered unrecognized political parties to get continued access to a particular free symbol and therefore indirectly converting a free symbol into a reserved symbol.”
“If there is equality and uniformity in each group, the law will not become discriminatory, though due to some fortuitous circumstance arising out of peculiar situation, some included in a class get an advantage over others so long as they are not singled out for special treatment.”
“Section 38(2) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, does not treat the equals as unequals, as the candidates belonging to recognized political parties, registered political parties and independent political parties stand on a different footing.”
“In a society like ours, job more often than not, happens to be predominant source of livelihood and therefore snatching away a job, virtually amounts to taking away the means of livelihood of the employee.”
“The object of enactment of the Telangana State Judicial (Service and Cadre) Rules, 2023 is to recruit suitable candidates to Telangana State Judicial Service who are acquainted with the practice of local Courts in Telangana and have the knowledge of local laws.”
Respondent authorities are instructed to proceed with the tender process based on the original tender document.
Calcutta High Court denied the compassionate appointment due to the lack of credibility and failure to establish financial dependency.
“Though the Constitutional Courts have the power to order fresh, de novo or reinvestigation but such directions have to be issued sparingly depending upon the facts of the case.”
“The High Court in exercise jurisdiction under Article 226 can even mould the relief or reliefs to meet the peculiar and complicated requirements of the country.”
“The basic requirement of Article 14 of the Constitution is that any action of the State must be non-arbitrary in essence and substance. It is the heartbeat of fair play and State actions are amenable to judicial review to the extent that the State must act validly for a discernible reason and not whimsically.”
“The fact that a particular packing machine is operated only for few days during the month does not result in the duty liability being proportionately reduced or enhanced.”
The larger public interest, which concerns patient safety, requires that all medical devices be brought within a regulatory regime. One cannot quibble with the intent, purpose and object with which the impugned notifications have been issued.
“No material was brought on record to show any financial loss to the public exchequer due to the payments made to the company, completing the construction, hence, the action of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was just, fair and reasonable”.
The State acts as a model employer that can’t discriminate among its employees and give a benefit that is conferred under the applicable rules/instructions to some, and deny the same to others.
In Aashirward Films v. Union of India, (2007) 6 SCC 624, Supreme Court laid down that a taxing statute for the reasons of functional expediency and even otherwise, can pick and choose to tax some; so long as the classification is reasonable.