Chandigarh, May 1 -- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Chandigarh bench, has directed the department of posts to regularise the services of three long-serving part-time workers employed in the Railway Mail Service (RMS) offices in Haryana.

The order passed by a bench comprising Rashmi Saxena Sahni and Suresh Kumar Batra on the applications filed by Vijay, a part-time safai karamchari posted in Rohtak, and Parkash Singh and Krishan Kumar, both part-time watermen posted in Faridabad and Hisar, respectively, the tribunal observed that denying them regularisation after decades of service was "exploitative in nature" and violative of constitutional principles.

The applicants had challenged orders issued by the postal authorities in ...