Srinagar, Nov 05: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed two clubbed petitions filed by 802 daily-rated workers from Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district seeking regularization of their services under SRO 520 of 2017, observing that the claimants were not shown to have been engaged before the government’s ban on fresh appointments imposed in 2015.

The judgment, delivered by Justice Javed Iqbal Wani, came in WP(C) No. 1415/2023 and WP(C) No. 411/2024, titled Nazir Ahmad Bhat and others versus Union Territory of J&K and others. The petitioners had sought directions for inclusion of their names in official records for regularization, claiming long years of service as daily wagers in the Power Development Department’s Sub-Transmission Division (STD) Ganderbal.

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