Supreme Court of India

Punjab Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. Ranjodh Singh and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 10 S.C.R. 317
Bench S.B. Sinha J.
Decided 6 December 2006

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Service /aw-Regularisation-Employee engaged on contractual basis by statutory bodies-Regularisation, claim of, on basis of purported scheme of regularisation by State-Grant of, by High Court-Correctness of-Held: Statutory bodies are bound to apply Recruitment Rules laid down under statutory rules and also constitutional provisions being a 'State'-Policy decision cannot be adopted by means of a circular letter since it is not a statutory instrument-Any departmental letter cannot prevail over statutory rule and constitutional provisions-Policy decision adopted in terms of Article 162 would be

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