Supreme Court of India

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

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Bench Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 1 August 2018
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the Regularisation Rules must be given a pragmatic interpretation 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 contract workers – Appellants were irregularly appointed by the State of Jharkhand – Plea of Appellants that they had put in more than 10 years of service and therefore were entitled to be regularised – Plea rejected by the High Court – Further, High Court took the view that the decision of the Supreme Court in Umadevi (3) case 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 taking an impractical view…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 not applicable

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