In a pivotal judgment by the Himachal Pradesh High Court in Vikram Singh vs. State, CWPOA No. 2343 of 2020, Justice Bipin Chander Negi tackled the significant issue of regularization of contractual employees in the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC). This saga began with the HRTC’s inclusion of ‘contractual recruitment’ in 2003, a move that led to the hiring of 153 drivers under fixed-term contracts. The heart of the dispute lay in the inconsistent regularization of these drivers, some after 6 years of service, compared to others regularized merely after a year. The case presents a detailed examination of the equitable treatment of contractual employees in government services, addressing the nuances of employment law.