STATE OF M.P. vs YOGESH CHANDRA DUBEY .

The Supreme Court held that daily wage employees cannot claim the minimum pay scale of the post they are working in without being legally regularized in service, as per the Madhya Pradesh Public Health Engineering Department (Non-Gazetted) Service (Conditions of Service and Recruitment) Rules, 1976. The Court emphasized that the respondents were not appointed in accordance with statutory rules and thus lacked a legal right to regularization or salary on a regular scale. The appeal was allowed, overturning the High Court's decision that had favored the respondents.