( 1 ) UNDER Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution, the petitioner-Institute has challenged the award of the Special Labour Court, Ahmedabad in Reference (LCIDAT) No. 248 of 1997 whereby the respondent-workman is ordered to be reinstated with full backwages with costs quantified at Rs. 750. 00. After the said impugned award was published on 6. 8. 1999 and the petition was filed and admitted with the grant of ad-interim relief on 13. 3. 2000, the order of ad-interim stay against operation of the award was modified by the Court (Coram: H. K. Rathod, J.) by ordering the petitioner to pay full current wages with arrears with effect from 9. 6. 1999 upon receipt of an affidavit from the respondent stating that he was unemployed. The respondent was ordered to file such affidavit in compliance with the provisions of Section 17-B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 ( the `i. D. Act for short ). Thereafter, in an application seeking clarification of the order, the above order was modified to the extent that the respondent was required to file an undertaking to the effect that if the petitioner succeeds in the petition, the workman will repay the amount of difference betwe