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In a significant ruling on government service law, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified whether the government can take back permanent job status after years of regularisation. Terming the State’s action “arbitrary” and “discriminatory”, the Court quashed a 1999 order  that de-regularised the services of a long-serving employee. Justice Sandeep Moudgil observed on February 13 : “Public power, exercised without fairness, degenerates into arbitrariness, which our Con