Employees State Insurance Corporation and Anr. v. Birajdar Amar Sanjeev and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ appeals by ESIC Corporation and ESIC Medical College & Hospital, Kalaburagi challenging Single Judge disposal of MBBS students' petitions against five-year compulsory service bond; appeals DISMISSED (Kalaburagi DB, 19.06.2025) because bond term lapsed and contesting student-respondents remained unserved despite final chance on 11.06.2025; liberty to revive appeals subject to outcome of writ appeals pending before Principal Bench against Shabana Salahudheen v. Union of India, W.P.Nos.29365-29368/2018 (EDN-RES) dt.14.02.2020; pending I.As. disposed; Section 4 Karnataka High Courts Act 1961; EDN-RES; NC: 2025:KHC-K:3236-DB; coram Mohammad Nawaz & K S Hemalekha JJ.; no quantum involved.
What did the court decide?
No relief to the appellants: all four writ appeals (W.A.Nos.200133, 200108, 200182 and 200186 of 2021) dismissed, with liberty reserved to the appellants to revive the appeals subject to the result of the writ appeals pending before the Principal Bench against the judgment in Shabana's case; pending I.As. disposed of as not surviving.