This decision closely follows the ruling in a similar case involving the officers of the Fertiliser Corporation of India, in A K Bindal vs Union of India.
In the latest judgement, the court asserted that the employees of a public sector undertaking (PSU) have no legal right to claim revision of wages when the undertaking has no financial capacity to grant pay revision. The government is not bound to give financial support to meet the additional expenditure incurred in pay and DA revision.
The officers of IDPL had at first demanded that the interim benefits recommended by the Fifth Pay Commission for employees of public sector enterprises be extended to them. They were denied such bounty. They moved the court in 1996, but their petition was dismissed as there was an
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