Temporary Assistant Officers

Temporary assistant officers, the expression 'Temporary Assistant Officers', which was not previously defined in the Railway Establishment Code, was sought to be defined by new clause 17 of Rule 102 to mean a 'a gazetted railway servant drawing pay on the scale applicable to junior scale officers but not classified either as Class I or as Class II Officer'. The expression Assistant Officer was redefined so as not to include a Temporary Assistant Officer who was not 'classified either as Class I or as Class II', Katyani Dayal v. Union of India, (1980) 3 SCC 245: (1980) 3 SCR 139.