Advocate, Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh, India, Email id: puneet_shipra@yahoo.co.in
Ad hoc public employment has always been a subject matter of concern for the Judiciary from a long period of time. Affairs like mode of appointment, scale of pay, kind of work, time period of employment, regularization etc. related to such employees has been the elements of significance in the legal discourse. It was a challenge before the Courts to impart justice by balancing the rights of the numerous citizens not before the Court, as against the few before the Court. This article attempts to bring a coherence in the issues related to such matters through various judgments of the Courts. It also focuses on a paradigm shift in the views of the Hon‘ble Apex Court through legal trends in this issue. Author tries analyze the landmark verdict given by the Supreme Court in Umadevi‘s case and draw various conclusions from the same.
Adhoc, Public Appointments, Back Door Entries, Regularization, Litigious Employment, Individualizing Justice, Employees, States Instrumentalities
