STATE OF U.P.versusNEERAJ AWASTHI AND ORS.
2005 INSC 62916 December 2005Appeal(s) allowed
The Uttar Pradesh State Agricultural Produce Market Board appointed 1,021 employees between April 1996 and October 1997 without complying with the statutory provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Krishi Utpadan Mandi Adhiniyam, 1964 and its service regulations. The State later cancelled those appointments on a last‑come‑first…
G.M. TANDA THERMAL POWER PROJECTversusJAI PRAKASH SRIVASTAVA AND ANR.
2007 INSC 104511 October 2007Appeal(s) allowed
The State of Uttar Pradesh acquired land for G.M. Tanda Thermal Power Project and the Special Land Acquisition Officer (SLAO) engaged daily‑wage workers, including Jai Prakash Srivastava, to handle the acquisition cases. Although the appellant (the power project company) funded the wages, the appointment and supervisio…
G.B. PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY, PANTNAGAR, NAINITALversusSTATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ORS.
2000 INSC 39910 August 2000Dismissed
The Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, a residential university established under the U.P. Agricultural University Act, 1958, operates 14 hostels and a cafeteria staffed by about 175 workers who sought regularisation as university employees. The Labour Court declared them regular employees, a…