Continuity of service benefits must be granted from the initial appointment date per established court precedents.

Order

07/10/2025

1. All these writ petitions involve identical issue, therefore, the same are being decided by this common order.

2. The present writ petitions have been filed with a prayer for grant of service benefits keeping into account the entire period of service of the petitioners, i.e. with effect from the date of their initial appointment on temporary/adhoc/urgent basis.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the issue involved in these petitions is squarely covered by an order dated 01.09.2025 passed by co-ordinate Bench of this court in a batch of writ petitions led by S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.17918/2018 (Shanker Lal Gupta Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors.). The said order has been passed based on the judgment rendered by the Division Bench of this court in the case of State of Rajasthan Vs. Dr. Paritosh Ujjwal (D.B. Civil Special Appeal (Writ) No.532/2016 decided on 09.07.2025) affirming the order passed by the Single Bench, whereby the State Government was directed to grant the benefit of continuity of service to the petitioner and the period of services rendered earlier reckoning from the intiail date of appointment for all purposes.

4. Learned counsel for the respondents is not in a position to refute the position of law as laid down in the case referred above.

5. In this background, these writ petitions are allowed in view of the ratio laid down in the case of Dr. Paritosh Ujjwal (supra).

6. The respondents are directed to compute the services of petitioners from the date of their intial appointment on tempoary/ adhoc/urgent basis and after the said computation, grant them the benefit of continuity of service for all purposes. Appropriate orders be passed within a period of eight weeks from now.

7. Stay petitions and all pending application are disposed of.