RANJIT SINGH Vs. PRESIDING OFFICER LABOUR COURT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE facts leading to the filing of the present Letters Patent Appeal filed at the instance of the workman-appellant Ranjit Singh are as under:-

(2.) WE have heard learned Counsel for the appellant and gone through the record.

(3.) CONCEDEDLY the truck in question had been sold and no new truck had been purchased. It has, however, been argued by Mr. Sharma, the learned Counsel for the appellant that the appropriate procedure for the respondent society was to have offered an alternative employment to the appellant as such work was available in the other branches of the co-operaive society. He has also argued that in any case the lump sum compensation awarded to the appellant was wholly inadequate and did not represent even a fair living figure and has urged that this should be enhanced. In support of this argument, reliance has been placed on the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in O. P. Bhandari v. Indian Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. and Ors. A. I. R. 1987 S. C. 111.