Supreme Court of India

Dharam Singh & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr.

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Reported as [2025] 8 S.C.R. 1026
Bench Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 19 August 2025

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing observations, the impugned order of the High Court cannot be sustained.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court erred in failing to adjudicate the appellants’ principal challenge to the State’s refusals to sanction posts and treating the matter as a mere plea for regularization, and, if so, given the appellants’ long and undisputed service, what appropriate relief ought to follow from this Court. Headnotes† Service Law – Regularization – State’s arbitrary refusals to sanction posts despite the perennial nature of duties and long service – Entitlement to regularization – Appellants (Class-IV employees-peons and Class-III-driver) were engaged between 1989

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