Summary:
The court observed that the employer’s advocate was unable to support the artificial distinction made in the concerned standing order between a female and a male employee. Suffice it to record that the policy cannot meet the test of equality and lack of gender bias, Article 14 of the Constitution of India guarantees equal opportunity in public employment. Article 15 frowns upon discrimination inter alia on the ground of gender.” It declared that Poddar Mill was not justified in not considering the woman employee’s case for extension of service only on the ground that she was a female employee. The petition had been filed by a woman employee of Poddar Mills seeking that a portion of an order framed by the employer be stroked down as it discriminates between male and female employees. The petition stated that this distinction between the male and female employees was ‘wholly arbitrary’ and ‘violative’..