RUPESH R. GAONKAR & ORS. versus STATE OF GOA & ORS.

Case summary from SCR

Issue for Consideration By the impugned judgment, the High Court declined to give effect to the order dated 07.02.2014 passed by the Principal Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (PWD), Government of Goa, which had granted the appellants temporary status and recognised their entitlement to establishment of the PWD as and when vacancies arose. Whether the said order of the High Court is liable to be set aside; whether, after availing those services continuously over a long period and thereafter conferring temporary status upon them, the State can legitimately deny appellants