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2024 Supreme(Chh) 211

RAKESH MOHAN PANDEY
Nai Dunia A Unit Of Jagran Prakashan Limited – Appellant
Versus
Hemlal Sahu S/o Shri Arjun Singh Sahu – Respondent


Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Girish Patwardhan, Senior Advocate, Mr. Manoj Dubey, Advocate, & Mr. Manay Nath Thakur, Advocate
For the Respondent:Mr. Vikash Dubey, Advocates

ORDER :

1. Since a common question of law and facts is involved in these petitions, therefore, they are clubbed together, heard together and decided finally by this common order.

2. Facts of the present case are as follows:-

    A. The petitioner is a newspaper establishment situated in Raipur, engaged in the printing and publishing of newspapers in the name and style of ‘Naidunyia’. It is a unit of Jagran Prakashan Limited (hereinafter referred to as “JPL.").

B. The effective date of demerger of Nai Duniya is 01.04.2012. The petitioner is governed by provisions of Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as “Act of 1955”).

C. Under the provisions of the Act of 1955, the Central Government constituted a Wage Board in the name of Majithia Wage Board (hereinafter referred to as “Wage Board”), which made its recommendation to fix/revise rates of wages for Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees in the newspaper establishments. The judgments regarding the demerger were passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, (Indore Bench) in Company Petition No. 24 of 2012 decided on 16.01.2013 an

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