Mere Absence of Sanctioned Post at Initial Appointment Not Enough to Deny Regularisation: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court delivered a significant judgment in favour of several Muster Roll and Work Charged employees in Assam who were denied regularisation despite being similarly placed with thousands of workers already absorbed by the State Government under a 2005 Cabinet policy. A Bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta held that the State Government could not discriminate between workers belonging to the same class and deny benefits…