Principal Medical and Health Officer v. Bharat Singh S/O Shri Banwari Lal
Case brief
What is this about?
Reinstatement with 25% back wages; termination of Driver employed December 1999 to 30.11.2002; contract-basis appointment objection; Section 2(oo)(bb) Industrial Disputes Act 1947 not attracted; Section 25-F non-compliance jurisdiction of Labour Court upheld; Section 25-G; Section 25-H; Rule 77 Industrial Disputes (Central) Rules 1957 violation; workman and industry definitions; Labour Court award upheld by Single Judge; D.B. Special Appeal Writ dismissed; cost Rs.20,000/- recovered from careless officers; failure to defend case before Labour Court; contractor-appointment documents found baseless; Principal Medical and Health Officer General Hospital Alwar versus Bharat Singh and Anil Kumar Jain; High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan, Bench at Jaipur; decided 23/01/2026.
What did the court decide?
No relief to the appellant: the special appeal writ is dismissed, leaving intact the learned Single Judge's order of 30.01.2023 upholding the Labour Court award of reinstatement with 25% back wages to the respondent; dismissal is accompanied by a cost of Rs.20,000/- to be recovered from the concerned officers careless in defending the case before the Labour Court; pending application(s), if any, stand disposed of.