Dayaram Gaur v. M/S Ganesh Industries
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ petitions by seven workmen against Labour Court (Rouse Avenue) awards rejecting reinstatement and back-wage claims for failure to prove employer-employee relationship; initial burden of proof on workman; uncontroverted testimony of management witness MW-1 (only three permanent employees) accepted absent cross-examination; alleged attendance cards Ex.WW1/2 held devoid of evidentiary value with no nexus to management; adverse inference against workman for not examining co-workers; limits of writ/certiorari jurisdiction under Article 226 — no re-appreciation of evidence or disturbance of factual findings unless perverse (Syed Yakoob v. K.S. Radhakrishnan, 1963 SCC OnLine SC 24; Pepsico India Holding (P) Ltd. v. Krishna Kant Pandey, (2015) 4 SCC 270; Krishnanand v. Director of Consolidation, (2015) 1 SCC 553); petitions dismissed, pending applications disposed. Keywords: karigar; Ganesh Industries; Labour Court award; LIR; industrial dispute; certiorari; perversity; factual findings; Sachin Datta J.