Supreme Court of India

Grah Rakshak, Home Guards Wel. Asso v. State of H.P. & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 2 S.C.R. 800
Bench Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and B N. V. Ramana JJ.
Decided 11 March 2015

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the members of E the Home Guards of Punjab under the Punjab Home Guards Rules are volunteers and are not regular employees of the State.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Service law - Regularisation - Home Guards of States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and N. . T of Delhi - Regularization of.service - Entitlement for - Plea .of the appellants that since they are working as Home Guards without any break for about 10-30 years, their services to be regularised - Held: Home Guards have been appointed as volunteers Home Guards under the Act- They are paid duty allowance and other allowances - There are no details about continuity of service, month to month basis or year to year basis -As and when there is requirement they were called for duty and otherwise they

Where later benches applied it

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