DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER Vs. SHRI GANIRAM

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RULE with the consent of the parties made returnable forthwith and heard.

(2.) THE above Writ Petitions take exception to the judgments and orders passed by the Industrial Court, Bhandara, by which the complaints filed by the respondent in each of the above petitions came to be allowed and the declaration came to be issued that the petitioners herein have engaged in unfair labour practice covered under Items 5, 6 and 9 of Schedule IV of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971 (M.R.T.U. & P.U.L.P. Act, 1979). THE Industrial Court has issued a direction to regularize the services of the complainants by forwarding a proposal to that effect as per Government Resolution dated 30/01/1996. A further direction was issued to extend the benefit of permanency to the complainants.

(3.) THE said chart was signed on behalf of the petitioners herein by one Ashwinikumar Thakkar, who was then working as Range Forest Officer. In so far as the petitioners are concerned, they also sought to produce muster rolls in respect of each of the respondentcomplainant in support of their case that each of the respondentcomplainant had not worked for a period of 240 days in each of the preceding five years prior to the cut off date. However, since the said muster rolls were not proved by the petitioners in accordance with the provisions of the Evidence Act, the same was not accepted.