National Federation Of Railway Porters ... vs Union Of India And Ors on 9 May, 1995
8. According to the petitioners the rejection Order is illegal, mala fide, arbitrary and has been made in violation of the Order passed, by Hon'ble Justice Kabir. When the petitioners moved the writ petition before Hon'ble Justice Kabir, in the writ petition they annexed two Judgments delivered by the Hon'ble Apex Court which were referred to by Hon'ble Justice Kabir In the judgment. The first judgment of the Hon'ble Apex Court which has been relied upon is a Judgment delivered in writ petition Nos. 507 of 1992, 115 of 1992, 82 of 1992 & 1836 of 1992 and all these writ petitions were moved under Article 32 of the Constitution of India under Cause Title "National Federation of Railway Porters v. Union of India and Ors. The Hon'ble Apex Court allowed all the above writ petitions and observed that the writ petitioners who are denied jobs as the railway parcel-porters as contractors' labourers should be absorbed permanently as regular railway parcel/porters of those stations. The members to be so appointed being limited to the quantum of work which may become available to them of perennial in nature. The Hon'ble Apex Court in that judgment also observed that the units of Railway Administration may absorb in all permanent posts only such of those railway a porters petitioners working in the concerned railway stations as contract labours who have not completed the superannuation age of 58 years. The Hon'ble Apex Court further observed that when the petitioners in the writ petitions or any of them are appointed as railway parcel/porters on permanent basis, they shall be entitled to get salaries from the date of their absorption in the minimum scale of pay or wages and other service benefits which the regularly appointed railway parcel/porters are already getting.