New Delhi, May 27 -- The Delhi High Court has upheld the termination of a contractual employee's tenure with the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), observing that a contractual engagement automatically comes to an end by "efflux of time" and does not confer any vested right to continue in service beyond the agreed tenure.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia dismissed an appeal challenging the cancellation of his extension as Executive Assistant with DERC.

The appeal arose from an order passed by a Single Judge dismissing writ petition against an office order dated April 5, 2024, through which an earlier extension granted to him was superseded and he was relieved from service. ...