Union of India v. Uttam Kumar Dutta
Case brief
What is this about?
Railway administration challenged Central Administrative Tribunal orders allowing applications of Goods Guards, Electrical Signal Maintainers and others whose accepted inter-zonal transfers were not given effect to. A Division Bench of the High Court had already decided the identical issue in a batch and that judgment had become final and bound the Railways. The writ petitions were dismissed, with
What did the court decide?
Writ petitions dismissed; petitioners granted six months from the date of receipt of a copy of the order to take steps for relieving the respondents/employees to the transferred places.