working, though under different Contractors. Learned counsel for respondents-workmen further submits that decision in International Airport Authority (Supra) , relied upon by petitioner’s counsel has no application to the facts of these cases because it is not the case of respondents-workmen that relationship of employer and employee existed and what was sought by respondents-workmen was regularization of their service. So, it is submitted that these petitions deserve to be dismissed. 6. After having heard learned counsel for the parties and on perusal of impugned Awards, material on record and the decision the cited, I find it strange that same set of workmen continue to work though Contractors keep on changing every two years. The factual background of these cases reveal that though respondents-workmen were made available by various Contractors from time to time, for a period of almost three decades by now, but the direction and control over the respondents-workmen had always been of petitioner. In cases like the instant one, strict rules of pleadings cannot be applied, as respondents-workmen are illiterate persons. The finding of Labour Contracts in question being sham or bogus cannot be dislodged while relying upon decision in International Airport Authority (Supra) and General Manager, (OSD), Bengal Nagupur Cotton Mills, Rajnandgaon Vs. Bharat Lal & Anr. (2011) 1 SCC 635, because instant case is not of an employer and employee relationship. It has to be kept in mind that employment of contract labour stands prohibited vide afore-noted Notification issued way back in the year 1997. In such a situation, the impugned Awards cannot be quashed, as respondents-workmen cannot be made to perpetually work on contract
