However, due to change in the technology and with introduction of privatization and setting up private Ports with whom the respondent Port has to companypete, the respondent Port decided as a policy to have uniform working hours for the personnel working on the indoor establishment and the out door establishment.
The appellants had filed a writ petition in the High Court companyplaining of violation of Article 14 of the Constitution on the ground that those Typist cum Computer Clerks who had been appointed in the Mumbai Port Trust prior to 1.11.1996 have to work for six and half hours a day, whereas Typist cum Computer Clerks like the appellants who have been appointed after 1.11.1996 have to work for seven and half hours excluding lunch break .
Heard learned companynsel for the parties and perused the record.
This Special Leave Petition has been filed against the impugned judgment of the Bombay High Court dated 9th October, 2009 passed in Writ Petition No.3059 of 1999.
MARKANDEY KATJU, J. Leave granted.
The judicial process is thus number a bucket of readymade answers, but a process, or technique, for easing an endless flux of changing social tensions.
