The petitioner, Sri Subhasish Sarkar, was engaged as a Field Operator by ONGC on a tenure basis since 2010, with his contract renewed every four years and capped at age 50, and he sought regularisation of his service with retrospective effect from 2010 along with regular pay scale. He argued that he had worked continuously for 14 years performing duties identical to regular employees, with only artificial one-day breaks between tenures, and that the retirement age cap of 50 years was arbitrary. ONGC opposed the petition on grounds of delay and laches, absence of any regularisation scheme, the petitioner's signed undertaking not to seek regularisation, the availability of an alternative remedy before the Labour Tribunal, and that the petition had become infructuous as the petitioner's engagement had already ended in 2025. The court examined precedents from the Andhra Pradesh High Court and the Supreme Court, noting that the factual background in those cases—involving workers originally engaged through cooperative societies for over 20 years—was distinct from the present case. The judgment text provided ends before the final order is delivered.