SUA BAI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This petition for writ is preferred to question validity, correctness and propriety of the order dated 6.1.2003 passed by the Labour Court, Jodhpur in Complaint Case No. 3/1998, By the order aforesaid, Judge, Labour Court, Jodhpur dismissed the application preferred by the petitioner-workman as per provisions of Section 33-C(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short 'the Act of 1947' hereinafter). The factual matrix necessary to be noticed is that the petitioner entered in the services of the respondents being appointed as 'Safal Karamchari' on 19.9.1976. Against the services rendered, she was paid monthly salary of Rs. 75/-. To have regular pay-scale, she preferred a petition for writ (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 179/1995) before this Court and that came to be allowed on 26.5.1995. The order passed by this Court reads as under:--

(2.) After acceptance of the writ petition, the petitioner preferred an application under Section 33-C(2) of the Act of 1947 to determine all her dues in accordance with the directions given in Writ Petition No. 179/1995. Learned Labour Court after considering the averments contained in the pleadings arrived at the conclusion that the applicant-petitioner was discontinued from service in the year 1991, therefore, she was not entitled for getting any relief as prayed. Suffice to mention that in the order dated 26.5.1995, this Court in quite specific terms mentioned that the relief will be given only if the petitioner was in service on the date of filing of the writ petition. Learned Labour Court while rejecting the application under Section 33-C(2) noticed that on the date of filing the writ petition, the petitioner was not in service.

(3.) From perusal of the order dated 26.5.1995, it is apparent that the regular pay-scale was required to be given to the petitioner, only if she would have been in service on the date of filing the writ petition. The respondents before the Labour Court came with a specific case that the petitioner was terminated from service much back in the year 1991.