Supreme Court of India

Bhola Nath v. The State of Jharkhand

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Bench Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 30 January 2026

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What the Court ordered

Conclusions as follows: I. The respondent-State was not justified in continuing the appellants on sanctioned vacant posts for over a decade under the nomenclature of contractual engagement and thereafter denying them consideration for regularization.

Judgment, page 30

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