Supreme Court of India

Narendra Kumar Tiwari & Ors. Etc. v. The State of Jharkhand & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [2018] 9 S.C.R. 412
Bench Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 1 August 2018
Status Distinguished

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the Regularisation Rules must be given a pragmatic interpretat ion and the appellants, if they have completed 10 years of service on the date of NARENDRA KUMAR TIWARI & ORS. v.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Service Law – Regularisation of daily wage or contr act workers – Appellants were irregularly appointed by the State of Jharkhand – Plea of Appellants that they had put in more tha n 10 years of service and therefore were entitled to be regularis ed – Plea rejected by the High Court – Further, High Court took the vie w that the decision of the Supreme Court in Umadevi (3) ca se did not permit regularisation of appellants since they had not worked for 10 years on the cut-off date of 10.04.2006 when the Constitution Bench rendered its decision – Held: High Court erred in takin g an impractical

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 not applicable

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