SAINI AND COMPANY Vs. GUJARAT ENGINEERING

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard learned advocates for the respective parties and perused the papers on record. Being aggrieved by the award dated 13.11.2003 passed by the Industrial Tribunal, Vadodara in Reference (IT) No. 83 of 1987, present petition has been preferred whereby the Tribunal had directed the petitioner to reinstate six workmen with full back wages and to pay full backwages to the other three workmen who had expired.

(2.) The facts in brief, as per the present petition, are set out as under:

(3.) Mr. Mehul Vakharia, learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submitted that the Tribunal failed to appreciate that it was stated on behalf of Economic Engineering Corporation that the said company had been closed long back and that the workers in question were working with the said Economic Engineering Corporation and not with the petitioner. He submitted that when such a fact is on record, the Tribunal erred in fastening the liability upon the petitioner firm.