Hyderabad, July 31 -- The Telangana High Court has dismissed a college lecturer's petition seeking retrospective regularisation of her service from June 1994 instead of October 1996.

The claim was legally unsustainable, said the court, because of an irregular initial appointment and an unexplained 19-year delay in seeking legal recourse, according to News Meter.

Delivering the verdict, Justice Juvvadi Sridevi said equitable remedy cannot be extended to litigants who sleep on their rights for decades.

The petitioner was Dr. D. Nalini Reddy, who was appointed as a Telugu lecturer at Nrupatunga Junior College in Hyderabad in June 1994 to cover a temporary vacancy. In early 1995, the permanent staff member retired, and the post became perm...