The Supreme Court of India has held that contractual stipulations purporting to bar claims for regularization cannot override constitutional guarantees, and the State, as a model employer, cannot rely on contractual labels to discard long-serving employees in a manner inconsistent with fairness and dignity. A Bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta set
Contractual Stipulations Barring Regularization Cannot Override Constitutional Guarantees; SC Directs Regularization of Jharkhand Junior Engineers
