WRIT PETITIONS (S-REG) NOS. 111922 & 112028 OF 2017 (C/W) - HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, DHARWAD BENCH (Justice M. Nagaprasanna), 10.12.2025. Petitioners - Nos. 1 to 106 in WP 111922/2017 and the listed applicants in WP 112028/2017, engaged in sub-staff/Group-D cadres (Peons, Sweepers, Watchmen, Assistants, Caretakers) at LIC branch offices under the Dharwad and Belagavi Divisional offices, with service stated to range from 2 to 24 years - sought, under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution, a writ of mandamus to regularise their services as LIC employees through a scheme similar to Annexure-A dated 18.01.2011, framing their claim in terms of State of Karnataka v. Uma Devi (2006) 4 SCC 1 and urging application of LIC of India v. D.V. Anil Kumar (2011 SCC OnLine SC 1602), wherein LIC had undertaken to formulate a one-time regularisation scheme for daily wagers. Counsel for the Corporation placed on record the three-Judge Bench judgment in Ranbir Singh v. LIC (2023) 17 SCC 196, which directs fresh verification of claims of workers employed at least 70 days in Class IV posts over three years or 85 days in Class III posts over two years, confined to persons working between 20-05-1985 and 04-03-1991, with eligibility resolved by monetary compensation computed @ Rs 50,000 for every year of service or part thereof, in lieu of reinstatement and notwithstanding the directions in T.N. Terminated Full Time Temporary LIC Employees Assn. v. LIC (2015) 9 SCC 62, payment within three months of the Verification Committee's report; a review stood rejected and a curative petition remained pending. Following the Co-ordinate Bench disposal of Pushpa H.E. v. Chairman, LIC (W.P. No.39961 of 2017, disposed 15.06.2023), the Court disposed both petitions without interfering with the impugned order or granting the regularisation prayer, observed (as needless) that the respondents-Corporation would not relieve the petitioners without the leave of the Court while the curative petition and Principal Bench matters subsist, and left the petitioners at liberty to revive these petitions in terms of the order to be passed by the Apex Court in the curative petition.
