JASWANT SINGH & ORS. ETC.versusUNION OF INDIA AND ORS. ETC.
1979 INSC 16229 August 1979Dismissed
The petitioners, who were engineers and other staff employed for the Beas Project, challenged orders of retrenchment, claiming they were employees of the Central Government, governed by the Central Civil Services (Temporary Service) Rules, 1965, and entitled to quasi‑permanent status and transfer to the Bhakra Beas Man…
SATISH CHANDRA YADAVversusUNION OF INDIA & ORS
2022 INSC 102426 September 2022Dismissed
The appellants, Satish Chandra Yadav and Pushpendra Kumar Yadav, were dismissed from the CRPF while on probation after it was discovered that they had answered "No" to questions about pending criminal cases in the verification Form-25, despite an FIR and subsequent criminal proceedings against them. The Supreme Court h…
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.versusSHRI BIHARI LAL SIDHANA
1997 INSC 32125 March 1997Leave Granted & Allowed
Shri B.L. Sidhana, a temporary cash clerk in the Delhi Milk Scheme, was accused of misappropriating funds and was placed under suspension. While the criminal prosecution was pending, the competent authority terminated his services under Rule 5(1) of the Central Civil Services (Temporary Service) Rules, 1965, mentioning…
SITARAM JIVYABHAI GAVALIversusRAMJIBHAI PETIYABHAI MAHALA & ORS.
1987 INSC 8025 March 1987Appeal(s) allowed
The appellant, a temporary government investigator, resigned by tendering a one‑month notice pay as required by Condition 6 of his appointment and handed over all official records on 24 Nov 1984, two days before filing his nomination for the Lok Sabha election. The respondent challenged his election, alleging that he w…
DAYA SHANKAR YADAVversusUNION OF INDIA & ORS.
2010 INSC 80924 November 2010Dismissed
The appellant, Daya Shankar Yadav, was appointed as a constable in the Central Reserve Police Force in 2003. In the verification roll he filled in July 2004, he answered ‘no’ to questions asking whether he had ever been arrested, prosecuted, detained, fined or convicted, despite a criminal case having been registered a…
K. ALEXversusDELHI STATE MINERAL DEV. CORPN.
2008 INSC 108223 September 2008Appeal(s) allowed
The appellant, a driver appointed on a temporary basis in 1987 and regularized in 1989, was listed among 275 retrenched employees for redeployment under a corporate policy. While all other listed employees were redeployed in Delhi Administration or other undertakings, the corporation terminated the appellant’s services…
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.versusARUN KUMAR ROY
1986 INSC 723 January 1986Appeal(s) allowed
Arun Kumar Roy was appointed as a temporary Stores Officer in the Zoological Survey of India on 30 July 1975, with a two‑year probation that was later extended by one year. On 27 July 1978 he was terminated during the extended probation, the termination order stating that he was entitled to one month’s salary in lieu o…
MAHENDER SINGHversusUNION OF INDIA AND ANR
1991 INSC 1682 August 1991Appeal(s) allowed
The appellant, a cash clerk, was suspended pending a criminal investigation and later terminated under Rule 5(1) of the Central Civil Services (Temporary Service) Rules, 1965. After being acquitted, he challenged the termination before the Central Administrative Tribunal, which set aside the termination and ordered tha…
BHIKHANI DEVI AND ETC.versusUNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS
2026 INSC 6121 June 2026Appeal(s) allowed
The appellants, former night‑guard casual labourers of the Department of Posts, were granted "temporary status" under the 1991 Casual Labourers Scheme and later treated at par with temporary Group ‘D’ employees after three years of service, but were never formally regularised. They sought pension and family‑pension ben…