Supreme Court of India
Inder Jit Gupta & Ors vs Union Of India & Ors on 14 August, 2001
Equivalent citations: AIR 2001 SUPREME COURT 3338, 2001 AIR SCW 3183, 2001 LAB. I. C. 2901, (2001) 6 JT 510 (SC), 2001 (6) JT 510, 2001 CRILR(SC&MP) 90 1030, 2001 (5) SCALE 198, 2001 (6) SCC 637, 2001 (8) SRJ 62, 2001 (3) UPLBEC 2323, (2001) 4 LAB LN 25, 2001 SCC (L&S) 1083, 2001 BLJR 3 1870, (2001) 4 PAT LJR 143, (2001) 3 SCT 1042, (2001) 4 SCJ 42, (2001) 3 SERVLR 749, (2001) 3 UPLBEC 2323, (2001) 6 SUPREME 227, (2001) 5 SCALE 198
Bench: Doraiswamy Raju, S.R.Babu
CASE NO.: Appeal (civil) 378 of 1994 PETITIONER: INDER JIT GUPTA & ORS. Vs. RESPONDENT: UNION OF INDIA & ORS. DATE OF JUDGMENT: 14/08/2001 BENCH: Doraiswamy Raju, S.R.Babu JUDGMENT:
RAJENDRA BABU, J. :
The appellants before us are serving in the Zoological Survey of India under the control of the Ministry of Environment & Forests. Most of them were appointed as Assistant Zoologists by direct recruitment and some of them were promoted to the post of Assistant Zoologist under the Zoological Survey of India (Central Service Class I and Class II posts] Recruitment Rules, 1963, as amended from time to time. They contended that they were governed by the Recruitment Rules, which prescribed only the Master's degree in Zoology as essential qualification for the post of Assistant Zoologist and experience relating to the posts above that of the Assistant Zoologist would be Scientist-B and so on. Annexure-II to the Recruitment Rules provides the norms for recruitment to the scientific posts as under:
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SC Rs.2200 -75- 2800- EB-100- 4000 SD Rs.3000 -100- 3500- 125- 4500 SE Rs.3700 -125- 4700- 150- 5000 SF Rs.4500 -150- 5700 SG Rs.5100 -150- 5700- 200- 6300 G Rs.5900- 200-6700 H Rs.5900 -200- 7300 Master's degree in Science or equivalent Fresh