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2026 Supreme(P&H) 268

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
JAGMOHAN BANSAL
Shankar Pal – Appellant
Versus
Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Jagdeep Jaswal, Advocate
For the Respondent:Mr. Ritesh Watts, Advocate for Mr. M.S.Batth, Advocate

JUDGMENT :

JAGMOHAN BANSAL, J. 

1. The petitioners through instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India is seeking direction to respondents to regularize him as per policy dated 13.03.2015 framed by Chandigarh Administration and followed by Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh.

2. The petitioner retired on 31.08.2025. He is claiming regularization on the basis of judgments of Hon’ble Supreme Court in Secretary, State of Karnataka & Others. vs. Umadevi & Others, (2006) 4 SCC 1 and Chandigarh Administration and another vs. Sampat Singh and others, Civil Appeal No. 6779 of 2009. He is further claiming that Municipal Corporation has adopted regularization policy dated 13.03.2015 of Chandigarh Administration.

3. The petitioner remained in service for more than 10 years after passing of aforesaid judgments and policy framed by U.T. Administration. He has already retired. He is claiming regularization after retirement on the basis of aforesaid judgments as well as policy of Chandigarh Administration.

4. No hard-and-fast rule can be laid down as to when the High Court should refuse to exercise its jurisdiction in favour of a party who moves it after considerable delay and i

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