HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH : BENCH AT INDORE WP No.219/2017 INDORE dt. 17-12-2018 Parties through their counsel.

The petitioners before this court have filed this present petition for issuance of an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondents to grant regular pay scale from the date they have been classified as permanent.

Learned counsel for the State Government has straightaway drawn the attention of this court towards the judgment delivered in the case of Ram Naresh Rawat Vs. Shri Ashwini Ray, the Contempt Petition No. 106/2016 arising out of SLP (Civil) No. 19292/2012. The judgment delivered by the apex court in paragraphs 21 to 25 reads as under :- “21. It is, thus, somewhat puzzling as to whether the employee, on getting the designation of 'permanent employee' can be treated as 'regular' employee. This answer does not flow from the reading of the Standing Orders Act and Rules. In common parlance, normally, a person who is known as 'permanent employee' would be treated as a regular employee but it does not appear to be exactly that kind of situation in the instant case when we find that merely after completing six months' service an employee gets right to be