कर्नाटक राज्य बनाम एम.एल. केसरी
| Citation | (2010) 9 SCC 247 |
| Court | Supreme Court of India |
| Date | 2 August 2010 |
| Year | 2010 |
| Bench | R.V. Raveendran, K.S. Radhakrishnan JJ. |
| Acts/Articles | Article 14, Article 16 |
| Category | Service & Employment Law |
Key Principle Established
The one-time exception in Umadevi for regularization of employees who worked 10+ years applies to all such employees irrespective of whether they were parties to that case.
Daily-wage and contractual employees who had worked for more than 10 years sought regularization under the one-time exception carved out in Secretary, State of Karnataka v. Umadevi (2006).
The Court clarified that the one-time exception in Umadevi applies to all similarly placed employees — not just those who were parties to that case. The State was directed to identify and regularize all employees who had completed 10 years of continuous service as on the date of the Umadevi judgment.
This judgment expanded the benefit of Umadevi’s one-time exception to lakhs of daily-wage workers across India, including Haryana, who had been denied regularization on the ground that they were not parties to the original case.
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