#Umadevi exception

The Karnataka High Court ruled that daily wage employees with 30 years of continuous service in a sanctioned post are entitled to regularization under the Umadevi exception, even without formal recruitment. The State cannot deny relief after decades of reliance on the employee's work, reinforcing constitutional protections under Articles 14 and 16 for long-serving contractual workers.

Delhi High Court rules that contractual employees engaged through transparent public recruitment and serving over 15 years cannot be indefinitely kept on contractual terms. The Court mandates consideration for regularisation under Articles 14 and 16, rejecting the State's use of contractual labels to bypass constitutional guarantees for public employment.

The Central Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack, ruled that 25 years of uninterrupted casual service entitles an employee to regularization, as denying it while regularizing similarly situated workers constitutes arbitrary discrimination under Article 14. The judgment reinforces that constitutional equity demands uniform treatment for employees performing identical duties over decades, especially when they are barred by age from seeking other government employment.