Webel Technology Limited, Represented through Its Authorized Signatory Namely Saikat Pal, v. the State of Jharkhand through Secretary, Dept. of Excise and Prohibition
Case brief
What is this about?
Common oral order disposing W.P.(C) 791/2025 (Frontline NCR Business Solutions) and W.P.(C) 1448/2025 (Webel Technology) against State of Jharkhand Excise Department and JSBCL; subjects: overtime/bonus/leave for manpower in JSBCL retail liquor shops (Clause 9.3 tender; Clause 5.2.1.2 Agreement 01.07.2023); Shop Supervisor salary Rule-24 Jharkhand Excise (Operation of Retail Product Shops through JSBCL) Rules 2022; revised minimum wages Clause 5.2.3.6 tender / Clause 14 Agreement; minimum guarantee revenue hiked 18.73% FY 2024-25; representation dated 14.11.2024 pending; decision deadline 31 December 2025; bench: Chief Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Rajesh Shankar, J.; counsel: Indrajit Sinha, Ankit Vishal, Zaid Imam, Ashutosh Anand (AAG-III), Raunak Sahay; N.A.F.R.
What did the court decide?
Direction to Respondent No. 2 (JSBCL, through its Managing Director) to consider the petitioner's representation dated 14.11.2024 together with the contents of the writ petitions themselves as representations, and to decide them as expeditiously as possible and in any event by 31st December 2025; no monetary award or substantive adjudication of the pleaded grievances was made.