Daily-Wage Workers Treated as Permanent Cannot Be Denied Retirement-Year Increment Merely Due to Their Status: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Chhaganbhai Kohyabhai Pateliya and 11 others, holding that they are entitled to the benefit of an annual increment that became due after their retirement. The judgment in 2026 INSC 1088 overturned a Gujarat High Court Division Bench order dated January 9, 2025. The appellants had retired on June 30 in different years after serving the Irrigation Department of the State of Gujarat…