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RAJNESH OSWAL, RAHUL BHARTI
Indira Gandhi National Open University – Appellant
Versus
Bashir Ahmad Sofi – Respondent
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| 1. hearing and review of the case's procedural history. (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. factual background leading to writ petition establishment. (Para 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7) |
| 3. clarification between regular appointments and contract employment. (Para 40 , 42 , 44 , 46) |
JUDGMENT :
1. Heard the learned Counsel for the parties. Perused the writ pleadings and the documents therewith and also the present letters patent appeal.
2. A short judgment of the learned Single Bench in the writ petition has engaged the Division Bench in a letters patent appeal for long to face the final curtain on the matter in issue.
3. The respondents No. 1 to 12 joined together to be the writ petitioners to file a writ petition No. SWP 1429/2009 on 09/10/2009 before the writ court against the appellants No. 1 to 5 herein who figured as the respondents No. 2 to 6 in the said writ petition. The pro forma respondent Union of India, UOI herein, figured as the respondent No. 1 in the writ petition.
4. The appellant No. 1 is Indira Gandhi National Open University (‘IGNOU’ in short), the appellant No. 2 is the Registrar Administration IGNOU, the appellant No. 3 is the Director, Regional Services Division IGNOU, the appellant
Employment rights are influenced by employment nature and regularization potential based on lengthy service, emphasizing fairness in recruitment practices.
Employers must clearly specify the nature of appointments in job advertisements; failure to do so leads to regularization of initially contractual positions when recruitment processes are followed.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that the Petitioners' service should have been regularized as they were engaged against sanctioned posts by following due process of selection and ....
Long-term contractual employees serving on sanctioned posts acquire a legitimate expectation of regularization. The State, acting as a model employer, cannot rely on contractual labels to arbitrarily....
Contractual employees cannot claim regularization as a matter of right; their employment is project-based and temporary, governed by specific contractual terms.
Regular appointments have to be made in accordance with the rules and by giving wide publicity, considering all eligible candidates.
The absence of any rule, regulation, or policy decision for the regularization of contractual appointees and the need to discourage frivolous litigation.
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