Chandigarh, May 1 -- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Chandigarh bench, has directed the department of posts to regularise the services of three long-serving part-time workers employed in the Railway Mail Service offices in Haryana. The order passed by a bench comprising Rashmi Saxena Sahni and Suresh Kumar Batra on the applications filed by Vijay, a part-time safai karamchari posted in Rohtak, and Parkash Singh and Krishan Kumar, both part-time watermen posted in Faridabad and Hisar, respectively, observed that denying them regularisation after decades of service was "exploitative in nature" and violative of constitutional principles. The applicants had challenged the postal authorities' May 2025 order rejecting their claims for regularisation. The employees argued that despite rendering continuous service for more than two decades, their services had not been regularised. The department of posts opposed the plea, arguing that the workers were not appointed against sanctioned posts and therefore did not meet the conditions laid down by the Supreme Court in the landmark secretary, State of Karnataka vs. Uma Devi judgment case governing regularisation of casual employees. The tribunal rejected the department's claims and directed that the applicants' services be regularised, with all benefits, within two months....