LISA GILL
Mukesh Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Haryana – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Lisa Gill, J. - This order shall dispose of CWP-21088-2021, CWP-21277-2021 and CWP-1015-2022 as an identical issue is sought to be raised in all these three petitions. With the consent of learned counsel, petitions have been taken up together for hearing and decision.
2. Petitioners in these writ petitions seek regularization of their services on the ground that they have been working on contract basis since last more than 10 years. While fulfilling all eligibility criterion and possessing necessary qualifications, petitioners are stated to have been appointed after following due selection procedure. It is submitted that petitioners were selected to the post of Instructors at Industrial Training Institutes in Haryana for a period of six months or till other regular incumbents were available pursuant to advertisement issued by the respondent - department in August, 2011. Their services were extended after every six months as nature of work, it is submitted, is perennial.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are continuously working as Instructors till date and large number of substantive posts of Instructors are lying vacant. Petitioners possess requ
Hargurpartap Singh vs. State of Punjab & others 2007 (13) SCC 292
Mere length of service does not vest an employee with a right to seek regularization, especially in the absence of any specific policy. The framing of a scheme for regularization is the prerogative o....
Longstanding service in a sanctioned post establishes right to regularization despite procedural irregularities in recruitment, supporting equitable treatment of long-term employees.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that contractual employees who have served for more than ten years without the protection of any interim order are entitled to be considered for re....
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....
The court emphasized that long uninterrupted service in governmental roles, despite initial irregular appointments, warrants consideration for regularization in accordance with established legal prec....
The court ruled that contract employees with over ten years of service against sanctioned posts are entitled to regularization, emphasizing the need for fair recruitment processes and age relaxation ....
Regularization of services for employees who have served for over ten years is a right that must be considered by the state, provided there are no valid objections, and the state must adhere to its o....
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