SATYANARAYAN SHARMA AND ORS. vs NATIONAL MINERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONLTD. AND ORS.

The Supreme Court dismissed the special leave petition challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court's decision which denied regularisation of daily-rated workmen under Article 136 of the Constitution. The Court upheld the High Court's findings that the petitioners were surplus to the establishment and had no specific job, thus not entitled to regularisation or equal pay for equal work. The Court noted the financial losses of the employer and the absence of vacancies, affirming that the petitioners' retention was purely on humanitarian grounds.