JUDGMENT:

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 2204 OF 2007 [Arising out of SLP (Civil) No. 17526 of 2006]

S.B. SINHA, J :

Leave granted.

Relationship between the parties hereto is employer and workmen. As far back in the ear 1983, the appellant terminated the services of 37 workmen allegedly on the ground that they had gone on an illegal strike. It gave rise to an industrial dispute. The management and its 19 workmen entered into compromise. One workman died during pendency of the said dispute. Claim of 17 workmen, therefore, survived for adjudication in the aforementioned industrial dispute. By an award dated 26.05.1993, the industrial court, to which reference of the dispute was made by the appropriate government, directed:

"Accordingly, the Employers are directed to reinstate these 17 workers on duty on the original post and payscale within one month after the date of publication of this Award. So far as the question of back-wages is concerned, these workmen are to be paid 50% of their wages/ allowances which they were getting on 2-6-83, for the period 1-8-87 till the date of their joining the duty, within 2 months of publication of this Award. As regards the deceased Komal Si