CHEF ENGINEER PUBLIC WORK Vs. DILIP SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) INSTANT petition has been filed by the petitioner-department assailing order dated 29/07/2009 passed by the learned Labour Court in pending LCR No. 407/2009, whereby the application filed by the petitioner-employer for setting aside the order dated 20/10/2008 by which the evidence of the petitioner was closed, stood rejected.

(2.) THE respondent-workman filed statement of claim in LCR No. 407/1999 and his evidence in support thereof was recorded finally on 01/09/2006 and the matter was posted for defence evidence of the petitioner-employer for October, 2006. THE case was fixed on several occasions for recording the evidence of the petitioner but it was deferred for one reason or other.

(3.) HOWEVER, the petitioner will be at liberty to take appropriate action against the defaulting officers who have failed in discharging their responsibility entrusted to them in accordance with law. No costs.