Supreme Court news: Drawing on vivid images from India’s space journey – rockets once carried on bicycles and satellites hauled on bullock carts – the Supreme Court has said that denying recognition and job security to long-serving daily-wage employees of the Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ) “strikes at the root of fairness and dignity in public employment”, and directed their regularisation after decades of service. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a civil appeal filed by R Iyyappan and 33 other daily-wage workers challenging the Madras High Court’s July 8, 2024, judgment, which had upheld the rejection of their plea for regularisation. Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta set aside the 2012 scheme as it provided only temporary employment. “To disregard or discriminate against such individuals in matters of service recognition would be to undermine the collective ethos that propelled India to the Moon and beyond.…