Sri Deve Gowda v. Chief Secretary
Case brief
What is this about?
Regularization of long-serving Sericulture Department employees (Driver, D-Group Field Assistant, FDA, SDA, Group D) aged about 60-61; writ petition under Articles 226 & 227 seeking mandamus for regularization on completion of 10 years' service on the principle of parity, claiming 35+ years of work and parity with similarly situated persons already regularised, including pay-scale fixation and pensionary benefits. Petitioners' counsel invoked 58 Supreme Court/Karnataka HC precedents (incl. Jaggo 2024 SCC Online SC 3826; Nihal Singh 2013 (14) SCC 65; Narendra Kumar Tiwari 2018 (8) SCC 238); AAG relied on Umadevi (2006) 4 SCC 1, Official Liquidator v. Dayanand (2008) 10 SCC 1 and allied anti-automatic-regularization precedents. Disposition: petition treated as representation, disposed of with liberty for additional representation within four weeks and respondent-decision within two months in accordance with law. Keywords: regularization; parity doctrine; daily-wager absorption; mandamus; representation; time-bound directions; High Court of Karnataka; WP No. 15752 of 2024; decision 23.04.2026.