STATE OF HARYANA . vs ISHWAR SINGH . — C.A. No. 5518 - 5537/2009

Case Summary: State of Haryana v. Ishwar Singh (C.A. No. 5518-5537/2009) The Supreme Court held that work-charge service cannot be counted as regular service for eligibility under the Haryana Civil Services (Assured Career Progression) Rules, 1998. Work-charge employees, engaged between 1966-1984 without formal selection procedures, are fundamentally different from regular employees recruited through prescribed statutory rules. The Court set aside High Court orders granting ACP scale benefits and dismissed the respondents' writ petitions, clarifying that "regular satisfactory service" requires recruitment through proper procedures, distinguishing it from temporary work-charge engagements. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.