the petitioner / Management filed several writ petitions and obtained order of stay of the proceedings of the Labour Court. Finally, all the writ petitions were dismissed, directing the Management to let in evidence. After the writ petitions were disposed of, several adjournments were granted by the Labour Court, enabling the Management to adduce evidence. However, the Management failed to adduce evidence and the evidence was closed. The matter was thereafter adjourned for arguments. After three adjournments, on 16.02.2026, the learned counsel for the workman had argued the case. Again on 18.02.2026, an application was filed by the Management to reopen the evidence of the Management. The said petition to reopen the evidence on behalf of the Management was supposed to have been filed in all 59 similar cases which were pending before the Labour Court. The learned Labour Court Judge, after going through the facts of the case and keeping in view the long pendency and that the Management approached the High Court by filing Writ Petitions, wherein the High Court directed the Management to adduce evidence, but they failed to do so, deemed it proper to reject the application of the Management to adduce evidence. The refusal of the Labour Court, dismissing the application to reopen the evidence of the Management, is also extracted in the impugned order, which
