Supreme Court of India

State of Karnataka & Ors. v. M.L. Kesari & Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 9 S.C.R. 543

Bench R.V. Raveendran and H.L. Gokhale JJ.

Decided 3 August 2010

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Labour Laws - Regularization - Daily wage workers - Continuance in service for 15 years, without intervention of court/tribunal - Writ petition seeking regularization - Allowed by single Judge as well as Division Bench of High Court - In *Uma Devi's case, constitution Bench of Supreme Court gave exception to the general rule against regularization holding that irregular appointments of the employees having 10 years service or more without intervention for the Court/tribunal to be regularized on one time measure within six months from the date of the judgment - Instant case was not considered

Where later benches applied it

2026 Sukhendu Bhattacharjee v. The State of Assam relied on
2021 Neelima Srivastava v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. relied on
2019 Siraj Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2019 Union of India & Ors. v. Central Administrative Tribunal & Ors. Etc.etc. relied on
2024 Rajkaran Singh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2019 The State of Bihar & Ors. v. Devendra Sharma referred to
2018 Narendra Kumar Tiwari & Ors. Etc. v. The State of Jharkhand & Ors. Etc. referred to
2017 State of U.P. & Anr. Etc. v. Anand Kumar Yadav & Ors. Etc. referred to
2015 Amarkant Rai v. State of Bihar & Ors. referred to
2014 State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Kamal Prasad & Ors. referred to
2014 Amarendra Kumar Mohapatra & Ors. v. State of Orissa & Ors. referred to
2026 Madan Singh v. The State of Haryana mentioned

Of those, 4 relied on · 7 referred to · 1 mentioned

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