The Bombay High Court ruled that denying permanency to an HIV-positive sweeper, Kumar Dashrath Kamble, for nearly two decades violated his constitutional rights to equality and non-discrimination. The court ordered Bombay Hospital to grant him permanent status from 2006, the date his peers were regularized. Justice Sandeep V. Marne criticized the hospital's arbitrary and discriminatory actions, stating the denial based on HIV status was unjust, especially since he continued to work and was eventually regularized on humanitarian grounds.