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MALA DEVIversusUNION OF INDIA & ORS.

2025 INSC 855Appeal(s) allowed

Mala Devi, the widow of a temporary railway employee who died in harness after 9 years 8 months of service, sought family pension under the Railway Pension Rules, 1993. The Central Administrative Tribunal and the Patna High Court dismissed her claim, holding that her husband’s service was not …

SHRI KRISHAN AND ORS.versusUNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

2014 INSC 1008Dismissed

The petitioners, canteen workers at the Mess/Canteen of the S&T Training Centre of Northern Railway, sought regularisation as railway employees, claiming they worked in a non‑statutory recognised canteen. The Central Administrative Tribunal held they were employed in a non‑statutory non‑recognised …

UNION OF INDIAversusPUSHPA RANI & OTHERS

2008 INSC 876Appeal(s) allowed

The petitioners, railway clerks belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, challenged a Railway Board letter dated 9 October 2003 that applied the reservation policy to posts created by a cadre‑restructuring exercise in Group C and D. The Central Administrative Tribunal had struck down …

S.P. INDUversusTHE GENERAL MANAGER, METRO RAILWAY AND ANR.

2007 INSC 1087Dismissed

The case concerned the seniority and eligibility for promotion to Assistant Law Officer in the Calcutta Metro Railway. The appellant, S.P. Indu, had been on deputation from South Eastern Railway and was placed in the Rs 2000‑3200 pay scale but had never passed the departmental examination and did …

RAMLALversusUNION OF INDIA

1996 INSC 916Dismissed

Ram Lal was appointed on an ad‑hoc basis as a casual railway worker in 1962 and was illegally terminated in 1964. A civil court set aside the termination and reinstated him in 1971, granting regular status effective from September 1971 after he passed a medical examination. He claimed that he should …

PRABHAVATI DEVIversusUNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

1995 INSC 744Appeal(s) allowed

The appellant, widow of Bipin Kumar Rai, claimed family pension after her husband, who had been employed by Indian Railways first as a casual worker and later as a "substitute" from 27‑04‑1983 until his death on 05‑01‑1987, died. While the Railways paid the death gratuity, they denied the family …