( 1 ) BY this writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the validity of award dated 24. 9. 2001 passed by the Labour Court-VIII, Karkardooma, delhi directing the petitioner to reinstate the respondents with continuity of service and 50% back wages.

( 2 ) BRIEFLY the facts are that the respondents Kishan Devi and bhagwati Devi raised an industrial dispute against the petitioner to the following effect:

"whether the services of Smt. Kishan Devi and Smt. Bhagwati Devi have been terminated illegally and/or unjustifiably by the management, if so, to what relief are they entitled and what directions are necessary in this respect. "

( 3 ) WHILE the contention of the respondents was that they were working as helpers with the petitioner management at a monthly salary of rs. 750/- p. m. each, the stand of management was that there was no woman helper in their factory and both the respondents were working as part-time sweepers. They used to come for sweeping the floors only for two hours a day, at the time of opening of factory and after finishing their work used to go. They did not work under supervision of anyone. Both of them stopped coming to the office of their own. They were not the

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