19 Sep 2023 5:33 AM GMT
The Supreme Court recently held that by working for a long period of time on contractual basis, no vested legal right is acquired for regularisation in service.
The Apex Court was considering the appeal of persons appointed in Shri Guru Govind Singh Institute of Engineering and Technology on contractual basis since 2011. They had sought regularisation in service in their respective posts. However, the appointment process for the post had been complete, the State informed the Apex Court.
A bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Bela M Trivedi, while appreciating the time spent by the petitioners at the institute, held that they had not acquired any vested legal right to be regularised. The view of the Bombay High Court was thus affirmed: