JUDGMENT

Rekha Borana, J. - The present writ petition has been filed against the award dated 01.05.2012 passed by the Labour Court, Bikaner whereby the claim of the workman was rejected basically on the ground of delay.

2. Brief facts of the case are as under:-

The petitioner who was appointed on 01.08.1981 as 'Beldar' on daily wages by the department is alleged to be terminated on 01.06.1984. Against the said termination the workman raised his claim for the first time on 14.01.2005 when he moved an application for reference of his dispute to the Labour Court. Acting upon the application of the workman the dispute was referred by the Government to the Labour Court on 15.05.2006. In the claim petition before the Labour Court, the workman specifically stated that in the year 2003 certain other employees who were at par with him were reinstated in the service by the department and when he came to know about the said fact in the year 2005, he also raised the dispute. Besides the said version it has only been averred that he had been approaching the respondent authorities continuously but no heed was paid to it.

3. Per contra it is the case of the respondent department that the services of