Court : Central Administrative Tribunal CAT Allahabad
Reported in : (2006)(3)SLJ59CAT
1. The explosive expansion of the Railways to cater to and cope up with the ever increasing travelling of the public results in creation of various Zonal Railways by the Indian Railways, the massive organization of Asia. Powers to create such new Zonal Railways is vested with the Central Government vide Section 3(4) of the Indian Railways Act, 1989 (Act 24 of 1989). Such a creation of new zones would inevitably lead to allocation and re-allocation of or carving out from the territorial jurisdiction of the existing zones and in turn, such a transfer of territorial jurisdiction to the newly created zones would have its own impact in the service conditions of the Railway employees coming under the administrative control of the new Zonal Railways. One such item feeling this impact, which frequently comes in for judicial scrutiny, is transfer and seniority of such employees. The case in hand belongs to this character.2. First the law on the subject on which the facts of the case would be t...
Tag this Judgment!