Chandigarh, April 18 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday upheld the regularisation of group B, C and D (class II, III and IV) contractual and daily-wage employees who had completed at least three years of service and were employed as on May 28, 2014, under the June 16 and 18, 2014 policies of the Haryana government.

The apex court however struck down two notifications of July 7, 2014, which sought to regularise ad-hoc group B, C and D employees who were in service since December 31, 2008, terming them arbitrary and illegal. The SC said that it did not see any justifiable reason to uphold the validity of the two notifications of July 7, 2014, since they intend to regularise the services of such ad-hoc employees, who were engaged without...