ORDER

Tarun Chatterjee, J. —

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal is directed against the Judgment and order dated th 15 of May, 2007 passed by a learned Judge of the High Court of Allahabad in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 17592 of 2001, whereby the High Court had disposed of the writ petition by setting aside the award passed by the Labour Court, Gorakhpur but directed that in spite of reinstatement of the appellant with full back wages, the spondents/State of UP shall pay to Faridan (appellant herein) an amount of Rs.50,000/- in addition to any amount, which may be paid by it under the impugned award. The High Court further ordered that the aforesaid amount of Rs.50,000/- however shall be paid within three months from that date, failing which an interest of 1% per annum shall be payable on the said amount since after three months till actual payment.

3. This order of the learned Single Judge was challenged by way of a Special Leave Petition, which came up for admission th on 4 of February, 2008 and this Court passed the following order :-

“Respondent No. 2 is deleted from the array of parties at the risk of the petitioner. Issue notice to respondent No. 1 limited to the question as