Raees Ahmad v. Sri Manoj Kumar Jain General Manager, and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. 4939 of 2020, Raees Ahmad v. Sri Manoj Kumar Jain, General Manager & Another (counsel: Jamal Ahmad Khan), decided 18.12.2020 by Saumitra Dayal Singh, J. Alleged willful disobedience of the conditional interim stay order dated 25.09.2019 in Writ-C No. 30641 of 2019, which stayed the back-wages, allowances and continuity-of-service direction of the Labour Court award dated 25.03.2019 subject to reinstatement of the workman within four weeks. Held: non-compliance with a conditional stay order vacates the stay; no contempt is made out. Contempt application dismissed with liberty to pursue recovery proceedings. Keywords: contempt, conditional interim stay, vacation of stay, back wages, reinstatement, Labour Court award, recovery proceedings.
What did the court decide?
No relief on contempt; liberty left open to the applicant to pursue the recovery proceedings on their own strength.