सचिव, कर्नाटक राज्य बनाम उमादेवी (3)
| Citation | (2006) 4 SCC 1 |
| Court | Supreme Court of India (Constitution Bench) |
| Date | 10 April 2006 |
| Year | 2006 |
| Bench | Y.K. Sabharwal CJI, K.G. Balakrishnan, S.H. Kapadia, C.K. Thakker, P.K. Balasubramanyan JJ. |
| Acts/Articles | Article 14, Article 16, Article 309 |
| Category | Constitutional Law, Service & Employment Law |
Key Principle Established
Regularization of irregular or contractual appointments cannot be claimed as a matter of right. Only duly selected candidates through proper recruitment process are entitled to regular appointments.
Large numbers of daily-wage, contractual, and ad hoc workers across various states sought regularization of their services, claiming they had been working for years without regular appointment.
The Constitution Bench laid down definitive law on regularization:
Umadevi is the most cited judgment on regularization of contractual employees. The one-time exception clause has been relied upon by lakhs of daily-wage workers. It settled the long-standing conflict between protection of contractual workers and maintaining the constitutional mandate of merit-based recruitment.
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