Service Law – Regularization – Consequential benefits – Respondents-writ petitioners, were working on different posts in appellant-University for 15 to 30 years, on contractual / daily wage basis – They prayed for regularizing their services on ground of parity with similarly situated employees who were confirmed and were also granted regular pay scale – Writ petitions – High Court directed the University to regularize the services of respondents with all consequential benefits – Held: No reason to interfere with the judgment passed by High Court granting regularization – However, on facts, to meet the ends of justice, the actual consequential benefits accruing from the regularization restricted to three years prior to filing of the writ petitions. Partly allowing the appeals, the Court
HELD: These writ petitions were filed in the year 2018/2019. In order to see that there is no heavy financial burden upon the University and at the same time to strike a balance and considering the fact that the respective original writ petitioners have worked for more than 15 to 30 years, if it is ordered that the actual consequential benefits on regularization of their services are restricted to three years prior to filing of the writ petitions, while they are granted the benefit of regularization notionally and with continuity of the service from the date on which the other similarly situated employees were regularized, it will meet the ends of justice. [Para 4][845-E-G]
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