Regularisation benefits: SC pulls up J&K officials for non-compliance of HC order

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has censured Jammu and Kashmir officials for not complying with a high court court over the regularisation of daily wagers and called it as a “glaring and textbook example of obstination”.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said instead of complying with the 2007 order of the high court for regularisation of daily wagers, who worked between 14-19 years in the rural development department, the state authorities kept on passing “cryptic orders” to harass them.

“We are constrained to observe that the present case is a glaring and textbook example of obstination exhibited by the state officials/authorities, who consider themselves to be above and beyond the reach of law,” the bench said in an order on March 7. PTI