Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 17 · Decided 8 January 2007
Accounts Officer (A & I) Apsrtc and ORS. v. K. V. Ramana and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 17 · [2007] 1 S.C.R. 231
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 96/2007
- Decided
- 8 January 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16
Headnote
Labour Law: Contract sweeper and attender-Claiming regularization-Held, even if contract labours/casual workers/ad hoc employees have worked for a long period, they cannot be regularized de hors the rules for selection- A circular cannot override Article 16 of the Constitution-Constitution of sweepers and attenders in the appellant-State Road Transport Corporation in May/August 1992. They filed a writ petition in the High Court stating that though they had completed 240 days of continuous service without any break, but since 10.5.1998 they were not given any work. They prayed that
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