Sujit Gangopadhyay vs Telecom Disputes Settlement And ... on 12 July, 2022
42.4. Persons holding the same rank/designation (in
different departments), but having dissimilar powers,
duties and responsibilities, can be placed in different
scales of pay and cannot claim the benefit of the principle
of "equal pay for equal work" (see Randhir Singh
case [Randhir Singh v. Union of India, (1982) 1 SCC 618
: 1982 SCC (L&S) 119] , State of Haryana v. Haryana
Civil Secretariat Personal Staff Assn. [State of
Haryana v. Haryana Civil Secretariat Personal Staff
Assn., (2002) 6 SCC 72 : 2002 SCC (L&S) 822]
and Hukum Chand Gupta case [Hukum Chand
Gupta v. ICAR, (2012) 12 SCC 666 : (2013) 3 SCC
(L&S) 493] ). Therefore, the principle would not be
automatically invoked merely because the subject and
reference posts have the same nomenclature.