R.Senthilkumar vs The State Through The on 20 August, 2019
(1967) 1 SCR 128] , R.N. Nanjundappa v. T.
Thimmiah [(1972) 1 SCC 409] and B.N. Nagarajan
v. State of Karnataka [(1979) 4 SCC 507 : 1980
SCC (L&S) 4] and referred to in para 15 above,
of duly qualified persons in duly sanctioned
vacant posts might have been made and the
employees have continued to work for ten years
or more but without the intervention of orders
of the courts or of tribunals. The question of
regularisation of the services of such
employees may have to be considered on merits
in the light of the principles settled by this
Court in the cases abovereferred to and in the
light of this judgment. In that context, the
Union of India, the State Governments and their
instrumentalities should take steps to
regularise as a one-time measure, the services
of such irregularly appointed, who have worked
for ten years or more in duly sanctioned posts
but not under cover of orders of the courts or
of tribunals and should further ensure that
regular recruitments are undertaken to fill
those vacant sanctioned posts that require to
be filled up, in cases where temporary
employees or daily wagers are being now
employed. The process must be set in motion
within six months from this date. We also
clarify that regularisation, if any already
made, but not sub judice, need not be reopened
based on this judgment, but there should be no
further bypassing of the constitutional
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requirement and regularising or making
permanent, those not duly appointed as per the
constitutional scheme.”(emphasis in original)
A case of regularisation which thus attained
finality and was not sub judice would not come
within the purview of exception to the rule
contained in Para 53 of the said judgment. The
appellants' case, thus, does not come within
the purview thereof. Only those cases where
regularisations had already been made were not
to be reopened. It is not in dispute that
services of the appellants were terminated as
far back as in 1987 and they did not question
the legality or validity of the said order.