The petitioners were ordered to release Rs. 75,000/- plus accrued interest and Rs. 5,000/- litigation expenses each to two workmen as a settlement in the writ petition, subject to filing an undertaking.
Order release of Rs. 75,000/- plus interest and Rs. 5,000/- each to workmen subject to undertaking.
This page shows the compact analysis of this judgement. The full analysis — procedural history, issue-by-issue holdings with ratio and obiter, advocates, and paragraph-level evidence for every claim — is being added to the record in batches and will appear here when this judgement has been through it.
$~26 & 27
CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAJMI WAZIRI
O R D E R % 06.02.2020
There is an order of payment of Rs. 1,47,200/- to each of the two workmen. Since they did not have a counsel, therefore upon request, Mr. Rajiv Agarwal, Advocate, who was present in the Court, was appointed as their counsel. The case was passed over for him to obtain instructions. Having done so, he states that the respondents would be willing to settle the lis upon payment of Rs. 75,000/- plus Rs. 5,000/- to each workman towards litigation expenses. The petitioners have already deposited Rs. 75,000/-
against each of the two workmen.
Let Rs. 75,000/-, alongwith interest accrued thereon, be released to the workmen in their respective bank accounts, alongwith Rs. 5,000/- each towards litigation expenses.
The learned counsel for the workmen submits that the workmen accept the aforesaid amount in settlement of all their claims against the petitioners.
Let an undertaking in this regard be filed. Unless the undertaking is filed in terms of the aforesaid, monies shall not be released to the workmen. The petitioners too shall file an undertaking in terms of the above. The petitions are disposed-off in the above terms.
NAJMI WAZIRI, J
FEBRUARY 06, 2020 RW
SHRI MANOJ KUMAR AND ORS.
GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.
NAJMI WAZIRI
As recorded by the court registry
A petition under Article 226 of the Constitution asking a High Court to issue a writ against the State or a public authority in a civil matter.
Judgements on the same questions, provisions and authorities, from every court
