Article 16 Archives

HIV positive patients can neither be denied employment nor promotion in employment: Allahabad High Court

HIV/AIDS patients have a right of equal treatment everywhere and they cannot be denied job opportunity or discriminated against in employment matters.

Case Briefs High Courts

[Civil Defence Volunteer Enrolment] Eligibility condition ‘place of residence’ being Delhi not violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21: Delhi High Court

A person who is residing in South India does not know the geography of Delhi and if recruited as civil defence volunteer, and in case of emergency he will get lost in Delhi instead of reaching to the place where emergency has occurred

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

[District Police Constable Driver Recruitment] MAT| Clause prohibiting application for one and the same post in more than one unit in the advertisement notice not violative of Article 14, 16 and 19

The Tribunal observed that the act of filling in 2 applications for one and the same post in more than one Unit cannot be accepted to be an inadvertent or innocent act.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court | Denying similar benefits to similarly situated Government employees working under same employer amounts to discrimination

Supreme Court: In an appeal filed against the judgment of the Delhi High Court, wherein the Court has set aside

Case Briefs High Courts

Meghalaya High Court | Selection processes should be transparent and not guided by Nepotism

“…that greater weightage is desirable to be given to the objective part of the assessment since the Indian psyche is such that the subjective part of the assessment, more often than not, is tainted, influenced or guided by nepotism or the usual uncle culture or even more disagreeable extraneous considerations.”

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) directs State to come out with clear policy regarding provision of the job posts for other genders

Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai: The coram of Mridula Bhatkar (Chairperson) and Medha Gadgil (Member) (A) while dealing with an application

Case Briefs Supreme Court (Constitution/Larger Benches)

Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes| 5-judge bench calls for revision of E.V. Chinnaiah decision; Matter referred to larger bench [DETAILED REPORT]

“The aspiration of equal treatment of the lowest strata, to whom the fruits of the reservation have not effectively reached, remains a