Puja vs Vikas Negi - 2023 Supreme(HP) 222

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2023 Supreme(HP) 222

SATYEN VAIDYA
Puja – Appellant
Versus
Vikas Negi – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Karan Kapoor, Advocate.
For the Respondents:Mr. B.C. Negi, Senior Advocate with Mr. Arvind Sharma, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

Satyen Vaidya, J.

By way of instant petition, the petitioner has approached this Court for initiating proceedings, against respondents, under the Contempt of Courts Act with the allegation that they have willfully and deliberately disobeyed the judgment/order dated 26.02.2022 passed by this Court in LPA No. 258 of 2012, titled as State Bank of India and another vs. Puja.

2. Brief facts necessary for adjudication of the petition can be summed up as under :

(i) The petitioner worked as sweeper in New Shimla branch of State Bank of India (for short, ‘the bank’) from 6.9.2000 to 29.7.2005, on payment of Rs. 50 per day. She was not allowed by the bank to work with effect from 29.7.2005. Petitioner had raised an industrial dispute under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short, ‘the Act’) against the bank alleging inter-alia termination of her services to be in violation of Section 25-F of the Act with further prayer to reinstate her in service with all consequential benefits.

(ii) Appropriate authority on 22.01.2007 had referred the dispute raised by petitioner to Central Government–cum-Labour Court, Chandigarh (for short, ‘the Tribunal’) under Section 10 of the Act in follo