Contractual employees to be treated at par with similarly situated Co. employees: Gujarat High Court

Gujarat High Court in Mehul Kumar Ramanlal Katpara vs. State of Gujarat C.A. No. 8766/2022, observed that there is no rationale in discriminating the employees by treating them as employees on contractual basis when initial contract for which they were appointed is over after 11 months and thereafter, without any break, they are continued for all these years and therefore the action of the employer in not regularizing the services of the contractual employees is not only arbitrary but also discriminatory and unjust and is, therefore, in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India.