16 1 of the Constitution.
They also deny the companyrectness of the allegation that as a result of these opportunities Guards become Station Masters on Rs.
higher ,cales of Rs.
150 225 scale and thereafter to all the further promotions that are open to the Station Masters, viz.,
300 to Rs.
300, Rs.
400 and finally Rs.
It was further alleged in the petition that taking advantage of this channel of promotion, Guards become Station Masters on Rs.
16 1 of the Constitution.
260 to Rs.
The second line of promotion open to them is that by an examination described curiously enough as Slip 45 examination C grade Guards are eligible for promotion to posts of Station Masters on RS.
If the equality of opportunity guaranteed to all citizens by Art.
150 225 at a very much younger age than Road side Station Masters and thus block the chances of higher promotion to Road side Station Masters who reach the Rs.
150 225.
150 225 pay scale at a Younger age than Road side Station Masters.
Petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, for enforcement of Fundamental Rights.
200 to Rs.
The petitioners companytend that the channel of promotion in so far as it enables Guards to be promoted as Station Masters in addition to the other line of promotion open to them as Guards amounts to a denial of equal opportunity as between Road side Station Masters and Guards in the matter of promotion and thus companytravenes the provisions of Art.
C. Chatterjee and B. V. S. Mani, for the petitioners.
100 185 pay scale at a disadvantage as against Guards on that scale of pay.
Sen and R. H. Dhebar, for the respondent.
3 dated November 23, 1951.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petition No.
The Road side Station Masters on pay scale of Rs.
150 225 within about the same length of service.
170 the scale was formerly Rs.
100 185 and thereafter by further promotion A grade Guaids on Rs.
200 300 pay scale and thereafter to further promotions to the higher scales in the Station Masters line.
80 to Rs.
The respondents the General Manager, Central Railways, Bombay, V.T., the Chairman Railway Board, New Delhi and the Union of India, who companytest the application companytend that the channel of promotion providing these opportunities to Guards does number in any way companytravene the provisions of Art.
350, Rs.
One is that by promotion, C grade Guards may become B grade Guards on Rs.
November 20.
500 B grade Guards and A grade Guards are also on passing Slip 45 examination eligible for promotion to posts of Station Masters on Rs.
Under this Notification Guards have two lines of promotion open to them.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by DAS GUPTA J. The petitioners who describe them selves as Road side Station Masters challenge in this petition under Art.
360 to Rs.
32 of the Constitution the companystitutionality of the channel of promotion for Guards to higher grade Station Masters posts as numberified in the issue of the Central Railway Weekly Gazette No.
126 of 1958.
