State Of U.P.& Ors vs Arvind Kumar Srivastava & Ors on 17 October, 2014
In State of Uttar Pradesh & others Vs. Arvind
Kumar Srivastava and others (supra) it has been observed by the Hon'ble
Supreme Court that normal rule is that when a particular set of employees is
given relief by the Court, all other identically situated persons need to be
treated alike by extending that benefit. Not doing so would amount to
discrimination and would be violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of
India. This principle needs to be applied in service matters more
emphatically as the service jurisprudence evolved by this Court from time to
time postulates that all similarly situated persons should be treated similarly.
Therefore, the normal rule would be that merely because other similarly
situated persons did not approach the Court earlier, they are not to be treated
differently.