Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 998 · Decided 19 August 2025
Dharam Singh & ORS. v. State of U.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 998 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 1026
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8558/2018
- Decided
- 19 August 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 21
Headnote
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, Court. 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
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