Supreme Court of India

State of Punjab v. Bahadur Singh & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 17 S.C.R. 1003
Bench S.B. Sinha and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 17 December 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the impugned judgment of the High Court cannot be sustained.

Judgment, page 10

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Service Law -- Regularisation - Of irregular appointees (not illegal appointees), working for more than ten years in duly sanctioned vacant posts without intervention of orders of c courts or of tribunals - Clarifications/directions given by Constitution Bench of Supreme Court in Uma Devi (3) case - Respondents working in work-charge establishment for decades as work-charge employees - Fifed writ petition seeking regularisation - Order passed by High Court - Challenge to - Matter remitted to High Court for consideration ; afresh in view of directions passed in Uma Devi (3) case . ...,,

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