Union Of India & Ors vs Md.Islam & Anr on 23 July, 2010
"1. Overruling the decision reported as 2001 (1) SCC 720
Union of India v. Mohd. Aslam, in the decision dated April 28, 2009
in C.A. No. 3495/2005 R.R. Pillai (dead) (Through LRs) v.
Commanding Officer HQ SAC & Ors., the Supreme Court held that
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employees of Unit Run Canteens in the Armed Forces are not
government employees and thus cannot claim such benefits as could
be asked by Government employees. The Supreme Court held that
only those persons whose salaries are paid from the Consolidated
Fund of India could claim the status of Central Government
employees. But the question whether Unit Run Canteens are
instrumentalities of the State and in that context what was the status of
the employees of the Unit Run Canteen, was left open.