Yogesh Mahajan vs Prof. R.C. Deka, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Bench: 2 — Madan B. Lokur

In Brief

A contract employee of AIIMS sought extension of his Technical Assistant (ENT) contract that expired in June 2010. Though his employer gave a favourable internal recommendation, AIIMS declined to extend. The petitioner claimed the decision was arbitrary, especially since AIIMS later hired Technical Assistants in 2016 (per RTI information). The Supreme Court upheld dismissal by the lower tribunals, holding that contract employees have no legal right to contract renewal. The decision to not extend, though supported by internal recommendation, was reasonably made. Subsequent recruitment years later was irrelevant to the 2010 termination decision.

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