Service Law

Regularisation/Absorption

— Temporary/Casual/Ad hoc/Contractual/Daily-wage employee — Contractual appointments made by State Corporation concerned in violation of statutory rules — Direction for regularisation of — Passed by High Court on basis of guidelines issued by Corporation for regularisation — Legality of — Held, was not justified in view of the decision in Umadevi (3), (2006) 4 SCC 1 that appointments made on contract basis or on daily wages and in violation of the statutory rules or the rules framed under proviso to Art. 309 of the Constitution, being void ab initio and thus nullities, question of regularising their services would not arise — No guidelines regularising such appointments could have been made even in terms of Art. 162 of the Constitution, (2006) 7 SCC 488