Madan Singh v. State of Haryana 2026 INSC 379 - Regularisation
Summary: The Supreme Court examined the validity of Haryana Government’s policies dated 16.06.2014, 18.06.2014 and 07.07.2014 for regularisation of Group B, C and D ad hoc/contractual/daily wage employees in light of Umadevi and subsequent precedents. It upheld the notifications dated 16.06.2014 and 18.06.2014 as a permissible one‑time extension of an earlier regularisation policy for similarly placed employees, but struck down the two notifications dated 07.07.2014 as arbitrary and illegal because they sought to regularise persons appointed without advertisement or interview and on a future cut‑off date (31.12.2018). Exercising Article 142, the Court nevertheless allowed those already regularised under the 07.07.2014 policies and still in service to continue in the lowest pay scale for their posts, while fully protecting the regularisations validly made under the 16.06.2014 and 18.06.2014 notifications.
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Basic Case Details
Case name: Madan Singh and Others v. State of Haryana and OthersNeutral citation: 2026 INSC 379
Court: Supreme Court of India, Civil Appellate JurisdictionCoram:
- Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha
- Hon’ble Mr. Justice Atul S. Chandurkar
Date of judgment: 16 April 2026 (NEW DELHI, APRIL 16, 2026)
Key Case Laws Cited
- Secretary, State of Karnataka and Others v. Umadevi and Others, 2006 INSC 216
- State of Karnataka and Others v. M. L. Kesari and Others, 2010 INSC 469
- Jaggo v. Union of India and Others, 2024 INSC 1034
- Rai Sahib Ram Jawaya Kapur and Others v. State of Punjab and Others, 1955 INSC 27
- B.N. Nagarajan and Others v. State of Karnataka and Others, 1979 INSC 96
- State of Punjab and Others v. Jagjit Singh and Others, 2016 INSC 993
Statutes / Constitutional Provisions Referred
- Article 14 of the Constitution of India
- Article 16 of the Constitution of India
- Article 162 of the Constitution of India (State executive power)
- Article 309 of the Constitution of India (recruitment rules, service matters)
- Article 142 of the Constitution of India (complete justice)
Brief Summary (Three Sentences)
The Supreme Court examined the validity of Haryana Government’s policies dated 16.06.2014, 18.06.2014 and 07.07.2014 for regularisation of Group B, C and D ad hoc/contractual/daily wage employees in light of Umadevi and subsequent precedents. It upheld the notifications dated 16.06.2014 and 18.06.2014 as a permissible one‑time extension of an earlier regularisation policy for similarly placed employees, but struck down the two notifications dated 07.07.2014 as arbitrary and illegal because they sought to regularise persons appointed without advertisement or interview and on a future cut‑off date (31.12.2018). Exercising Article 142, the Court nevertheless allowed those already regularised under the 07.07.2014 policies and still in service to continue in the lowest pay scale for their posts, while fully protecting the regularisations validly made under the 16.06.2014 and 18.06.2014 notifications.