THE STATE OF ODISHA vs BINAPANI PADHY — C.A. No. 189/2026

The Supreme Court condoned the delay and heard the State of Odisha's SLP challenging the Orissa High Court's order upholding regularization of two contractual DIET teachers. The State argued that the Division Bench wrongly dismissed its appeal on delay grounds without examining merits, and that the respondents were contractual employees not entitled to be equated with regularly regularized teachers. The Court issued notice to the respondents, returnable in four weeks. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.