UNION OF INDIA THRU GENRAL MANAGER N E R GORAKHPUR & ANR Vs. N E R EMPLOYEES UNION(PRKS) GORAKHPUR THRU BRANCH SECY &ORS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioners have challenged the Award passed by the Presiding Officer, CGIT, Lucknow dated 20.8.2014 on a Reference being made to it on 8.1.2002 in a dispute between the North-Eastern Railways Employees Union (PRKS), Gorakhpur and the General Manager, North-Eastern Railways, Gorakhpur. The Reference under adjudication is as follows:-

(2.) The case set up by the workmen's union was that the Railway Mens Consumer Cooperative Society Ltd., a society registered under the Cooperative Societies Act for

(3.) It was submitted that as per the law settled by the Honourable Supreme Court in M.M.R. Khan Vs. Union of India, 1990 AIR(SC) 937 employees of statutory canteens run by the Railways and even non statutory canteens run for the benefit of Railways employees and recognised by the Railway were entitled for regularisation and consequential service benefits w.e.f. 1.4.1990.