SURENDRANAGA DISTTPANCHAYAT Vs. GANGABEN LALJIBHAI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Appellants challenge correctness of the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court dismissing the Letters Patent Appeal filed by the appellants. By the impugned judgment the Division Bench upheld the decision of learned Single Judge.

(2.) Background facts in a nutshell are as follows :

(3.) The labour court noted that the details pertaining to attendance of the respondent have been produced, and zerox copies of the salary register and muster roll have also produced. The labour court came to hold that the workman's plea in each case that he had worked for various periods for more than 240 days in a year was established and there was non-compliance of the provisions of Section 25-F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (in short the 'Act') and as such termination was illegal. They were awarded back wages. The writ petitions filed were dismissed and so was the Letters Patent Appeal as indicated above.