PHOOL BADAN TIWARI . vs UNION OF INDIA . — C.A. No. 272/2001

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed by Phool Badan Tiwari and others who sought recognition as railway employees and regularization of their services. The Court held that the appellants were not railway servants but part-time supervisors appointed under a welfare scheme to train wives and daughters of railway employees at Handicraft Centres, with fixed remuneration and commission rather than regular pay-scales, and thus the Central Administrative Tribunal had no jurisdiction to entertain their claims. The Court upheld the Tribunal and High Court's dismissal, finding no material showing the appellants were appointed pursuant to recruitment rules or by railway authorities in an official capacity. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.