...irregular or illegal appointments and instead make appointments on a regular basis.6. The concept of a one-time measure was further explained in Kesari...in Umadevi (3) (2006) 4 SCC 1 was therefore twofold, namely, to prevent irregular or illegal appointments in the future and secondly, to confer a...benefit on those who had been irregularly appointed in the past. The fact that the State of Jharkhand continued with the irregular appointments for almost a decade after the decision in Umadevi (3...

...document;(ii) Illegal appointments; and(iii) Irregular appointments.7. About 91 cases which were...classified as irregular appointments were eventually ordered to be regularised keeping in view the direction in Umadevi (3) (2006) 4 SCC 1. Rest of...writ petitioners are illegal appointees. Those whose appointments were found to be irregular by the committee constituted in pursuance of the judgment and order of the Division Bench were distinct from...

...extracted below :“53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in S.V Narayanappa...appointments are considered to be irregular.Umadevi casts a duty upon the concerned Government or instrumentality, to take steps to regularize the services of those...1). In that case, a Constitution Bench of this Court held that appointments made without following the due process or the rules relating to appointment did not confer any right on the appointees and...

...) (2006) 4 SCC 1 judgment deals with irregular appointments (not illegal appointments). The Constitution Bench specifically referred to the judgments in State of Mysore v. S.V Narayanappa...:“53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in S.V Narayanappa...applied but no panel or merit list was prepared by the Council. Accordingly, no appointments were effected. Council, though took a decision on 16-12-1999 to complete the selection process including...

...assert that their appointments were not "illegal" but at most "irregular." Drawing on the principles laid down in Secretary, State of Karnataka v. Uma...Devi4, they submit that long-serving employees in irregular appointments—who fulfil essential, sanctioned functions—are entitled to consideration for...sought to prevent backdoor entries and illegal appointments that circumvent constitutional requirements. However, where appointments were not illegal but possibly "irregular...

...documents;(b) illegal appointments; and(c) irregular appointments.6. The State Committee found 91 cases of irregular...falling in the categories i.e. employment secured on forged documents and illegal appointments, whereas, 91 candidates whose appointment was found to be irregular were allowed to continue. Such Report of...for public employment.xxxxxxxxx53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments...

...aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in State of Mysore v. S.V Narayanappa...appointment of such employee should not be illegal, even if irregular. Where the appointments are not made or continued against sanctioned posts or where the persons appointed do not possess the prescribed...selected without undergoing the process of open competitive selection, such appointments are considered to be irregular.’45. The upshot of the above discussion is that...

... 7. The judgement in the case Uma Devi (supra) also distinguished between "irregular" and "illegal" appointments underscoring the importance of.... One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in S.V. Narayanappa [(1967... Administrative Tribunal by way of Original Applications. The Tribunal vide order dated 21.11.2001 dismissed the applications of the appellants, concluding that their appointments were temporary and for a...

...forged documents; 228 appointments were illegal and 91 appointments were irregular. With respect to the present appellant, the Committee opined that her appointment was illegal as her appointment was...that there was a large scale illegal/irregular appointments made in the Health Department of the State of Bihar. The State Government constituted a five-Persons Committee especially to record finding...appointments as illegal or irregular appointments. Amongst the illegal appointments, a further classification was made-the appointments made ate hors the rules and the appointments made on the basis of...

...regard I have to inform this thing also that after making intensive examination in respect of irregular appointments made in the Mandi Parishad and Mandi Samitis before 1-4-1996, kindly furnish a...action against the officers responsible for the said irregular appointments.”4. Further directions were issued on 17-3-1999 in the following terms...regard to irregular appointments made on the post of various categories in the U.P State Agricultural Marketing Board, there has been no requirement of prescribed procedure rules. In such circumstances...

...dealing with the case of the appellants for regularization, that their appointments were illegal and not irregular one. This Court, while entertaining the special leave petition, on 23.3.2015 passed the..., (2006) 4 SCC 1. Same is extracted hereunder:“One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not...illegal appointments) as explained in State of Mysore v. S.V Narayanappa, (1967) 1 SCR 128...

...be taken as a one-time measure to regularise them. In para 53, the Court observed as under:“53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not...exception carved out in this case was to permit regularisation of such appointments, which are irregular but not illegal, and to ensure security of employment of those persons who had served the State...(2006) 4 SCC 1 , 2006 SCC (L&S) 753 and explaining the difference between irregular and illegal appointments in State of Karnataka...

...itself directed the Central or State Government to consider and adopt a one-time measure for regularisation of services of the employees whose appointments were irregular. For the sake of clarity, we...equated with regularisation.53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in S.V...that what the Constitution Bench had in mind in directing regularisation was in relation to such appointments, which were irregular in nature and not illegal ones.18...

...appointments were made, no opportunity of hearing was required to be given.In the opinion of the Court, even in irregular appointments, opportunity of hearing is required to be given. Once...working as a Junior Clerk. All of a sudden the opposite party issued an order dated 27.5.1998, cancelling all the appointments made by Dr. S.N Arya, Additional Director after 01.11.1997 The petitioner...petitioner before passing the impugned order. In response to paragraph 7 and 11 of the writ petition, the respondents have contended in paragraph 9 and 13 of the counter affidavit that since irregular...

...to irregular appointments without reference to the duty to comply with the proper appointment procedure contemplated by the Constitution:“4. … The Union, the States, their...departments and instrumentalities have resorted to irregular appointments, especially in the lower rungs of the service, without reference to the duty to ensure a proper appointment procedure through the....”7. In the background of such appointments, various persons who were appointed, including the appellants herein, approached the High Court of Punjab & Haryana...

...counsel is, to the effect, that the appointments as had been made and may have been the subject-matter of an issue even in C.W.J.C No. 1540 of 1994 and these appointments were irregular for more than...one reason. The answer of the Court to this is very simple. Whoever made these irregular appointments, let a departmental inquiry be made against those officers and they be proceeded with and...punished for administrative lapses in making illegal appointments. Otherwise, what is happening is that the High Court is getting cluttered with cases in which the State counsel is coming out with a defence...

...:“53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in S.V Narayanappa...respondents that the appointments were irregular and not illegal, cannot be accepted for more than one reason. They were appointed only on the basis of their applications. The Recruitment Rules were not...services only of those employees whose appointments were irregular as explained in State of Mysore v. S.V Narayanappa (1967) 1 SCR 128, AIR 1967 SC...

...) (2006) 4 SCC 1 which reads as under:“53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal...the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents that the appointments were irregular and not illegal, cannot be accepted for more than one reason. They were appointed only on the basis of...of directing regularisation of the services only of those employees whose appointments were irregular as explained in State of Mysore v. S.V Narayanappa...

...for more than ten years and para 53 reads as under:“53. One aspect needs to be clarified. There may be cases where irregular appointments (not illegal appointments) as explained in...SCC (L&S) 753, the appointments of the appellants were ex facie illegal dehors Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and directed an inquiry regarding initial appointments...Authority on contractual basis for a period of 89 days. Admittedly, initial appointments of the appellants were not made against any sanctioned posts. However, their engagement continued from time to...