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2025 Supreme(Guj) 1831

IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
A.S. SUPEHIA, R. T. VACHHANI, JJ.
Punambhai Ashabhai Waghela - Appellant
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Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. & Anr. – Respondents
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Decided On : 04-09-2025

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr Pr Thakkar, Advocate for Mr JP Thakkar, Advocate.
For the Respondents:Mr K.S. Nanavati, Senior Advocate & Mr. Mihir Joshi, Senior Advocate with Mr Kunal Nanavati, Mr Mayur V Dhotare & Mr Devesh Ramakrishnan, Advocates.

Voluntary retirement scheme withdrawals post acceptance cannot be permitted; employees are bound by terms once applications accepted, and acceptance of benefits further confirms the inability to challenge the withdrawal process.

Headnote:(A) Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) - Applicability and Withdrawals - Employees challenged the rejection of their withdrawal from VSS after its expiry. Court held that the applications were invalid as acceptance occurred before the withdrawal requests and established that employees couldn’t withdraw after the deadline. (Paras 31-44)

(B) Evidence - The existence of office orders and circulars posted on notice boards was upheld despite employees’ objections. The voluntary retirement applications were considered binding once accepted by the company. (Paras 40-46)

Facts of the case:
Employees of a corporation applied for voluntary retirement under a scheme but later sought to withdraw their applications shortly before the scheme's closure. The company rejected these requests citing procedural completion.

Findings of Court:
Employees did not submit valid withdrawal requests before the deadline, and the company’s actions were deemed legally sound with no irregularities noted.

Issues: Whether employees had the right to withdraw from the VSS post-acceptance and validity of the acceptance process undertaken by the corporation.

Ratio Decidendi: Court confirmed that the applicants lost their rights to withdraw their applications after acceptance by the company per the VSS rules and conditions. Acceptance of benefits further estopped them from reasserting their claims.

Result: Appeals dismissed.

Table of Content
1. background on the disputes regarding voluntary retirement (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)
2. arguments presented by appellant regarding vrs (Para 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19)
3. court's analysis and evaluation of evidence (Para 28 , 29 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 47)
4. determining withdrawal rights under vrs (Para 31 , 34 , 36 , 41 , 46)
5. final order dismissing the appeals (Para 48)

JUDGMENT :

A.S. SUPEHIA, J.

1. The present group of Letters Patent Appeals, filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent Act, 1865, emanates from the common CAV order dated 15.09.2022 passed by the learned Single Judge, whereby the captioned writ petitions filed by the appellants – employees of the respondent - Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), came to be rejected. The employees - writ petitioner’s had challenged the awards passed in the respective references by the Labour Court No.1, Vadodara, dismissing 462 reference proceedings and refusing to grant the relief of reinstatement with back wages. The controversy pertains to the withdrawal of applications filed by the appellant–employees seeking voluntary retirement under the Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS)/Special Separation Scheme (SSS) introduced by the respondent–Corporation vide Circular dated 06.03.2007, which has remained in operation from 06.03.2007 to 20.03.2007.

2. A total of 2,400 employees, including the present appellants, applied to avail the benefits under the said Scheme.

3. According to the employees, on 20.03.2007, in the late evening, all of them approached the appropriate officer of the respondent–Company with a request to withdraw their voluntary retirement applications. However, the officers refused to accede to such requests. Thereafter, between 21.03.2007 and 22.03.2007, the employees submitted formal applications for withdrawal. It is the specific case of the employees that, as on 20.03.2007, when the order purporting to accept all 2,400 applications was shown to have been passed, such an order was, in fact, not in existence, and that it was subsequently prepared and backdated with a view to deny the requests of the appellant-employees for withdrawal of their applications.

4. It is further alleged by the employees that their signatures were obtained on blank forms attached to the applications for availing benefits under the VSS / SSS, and that the corresponding amounts were directly deposited into their bank accounts. The aforesaid action of the respondent– Corporation led to the initiation of reference proceedings. The matter has a checkered history, having undergone three earlier rounds of litigation, which ultimately traveled upto the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, in turn, directed that separate references be filed and decided on their own merits. Pursuant thereto, the aforesaid 464 references were segregated, and each individual reference was adjudicated by the Labour Court, after examining the evidence adduced by both sides.

5. The Labour Court, in its ultimate decision, rejected the reference proceedings, which gave rise to the writ petitions. The learned Single Judge dismissed the said writ petitions, which gave rise to the present group of Letters Patent Appeals.

SUBMISSIONS OF THE APPELLANT – EMPLOYEES :

6. The first and foremost ground, which has been raised by the learned advocate Mr.P.R.Thakkar, appearing for learned advocate Mr.J.P.Thakkar, for the appellant–employees is that the validity of the Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) was from 06.03.2007 till 20.03.2007. However, while pointing out Clause 7 of the said Scheme, it is submitted by him that the date of relieving was the first week of April, 2007. It is submitted that before the aforesaid relieving, all the employees had filed an application for withdrawing their applications, which were filed by the employees, who were 464 in number. He has also referred to the Office Order dated

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