Chandigarh, July 28 -- A Punjab and Haryana high court division bench has given eight weeks to Chandigarh administration and municipal corporation (MC) to consider claims of employees, working for over a decade now, for regularisation of services within eight weeks.

The order came on appeals from the MC and Chandigarh administration against August 2025 order of a single judge bench in which court ordered regularisation of services of petitioner employees within six weeks and further said that they would be deemed to be regularised and would be entitled to seniority and regular pay from the expiry of six weeks period. This decision of the court came on a 2017 petition by a group of employees.

The division bench was dealing with six petit...