Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 431 · Decided 17 April 2007
Director, Food and Supplies, Punjab and ANR. v. Gurmit Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 431 · [2007] 5 S.C.R. 261
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7637/2004
- Decided
- 17 April 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act; Industrial Employment Act
Headnote
B Labour Laws: Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: c s.10--Reference to Lribour Court-Labour Court, without deciding pleas of non-applicability of the Act and 9 years delay in making the claim, directing reinstatement of workman-High Court declining to interfere­ Held, Labour Court having not High Court set aside-Matter remitted to D Labour Court for adjudication on these aspects-Jurisdiction of Labour Court-Delay/Laches. Respondent in Civil Appeal No. 7637/2004 was engaged as Chowkidar by the appellants on 1.6.1985 on monthly wages of Rs. 400/-. His services were terminated on
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