BHARAT COKING COAL LTD. Vs. SHEO CHAND KUMAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE respondents who were appointed on provisional basis were removed from the services of the appellant in the year 1981. Subsequently, in pursuance of the award in Ref. Case No. 58 of 1991, they were reinstated with their full back wages. Later on, for administrative reasons, the provisional appointment of the respondents was withdrawn which they challenged in WP (L) No. 4888 of 2003. The learned single Judge by order dated 17th November, 2003 set aside the said order and directed the appellant Management to regularize the services of the respondents and to give all benefits.

(2.) HAVING heard the counsel for the parties, on 6th December, 2005, we had allowed time to the counsel for the parties to find out whether there could be a settlement with regard to the back wages. Today, when the case was taken up, no affidavit has been filed by any of the parties with regard to the claim of the back wages.

(3.) THE order passed by the learned single Judge in the aforesaid writ petition stands modified to the extent indicated above.