Sri C M Pavi Kumar v. State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Regularization of long-serving employees (35+ years) of Panchayat Raj Engineering Department and Rural Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation Department, Karnataka (D-group employee, watchman, drilling assistant, driver/cleaner); plea for parity with similarly situated regularized employees; pension and pay-scale fixation; writ under Articles 226/227 disposed by treating petition as representation with liberty to file fresh representation in 4 weeks and direction to authorities to decide within 2 months in light of cited precedents (58 cited by petitioner incl. Jaggo 2024 SCC OnLine SC 3826, Om Prakash Banerjee 2023 INSC 567; 15 cited by respondents incl. Umadevi (2006) 4 SCC 1, Official Liquidator v. Dayanand (2008) 10 SCC 1). No findings on merits. WP No. 30884 of 2025 (S-REG), Kar HC Bengaluru, decided 23.04.2026, NC: 2026:KHC:22491.
What did the court decide?
Directions issued: petition treated as a representation; liberty to petitioners to file an additional representation within four weeks; concerned respondents to consider the regularization representations and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law, bearing in mind the Apex Court and Karnataka High Court judgments cited, within two months of receipt of a copy of the order. No substantive relief of regularization or pension fixation granted at this stage.