JUDGMENT :

1. Heard the learned counsel for the parties.

2. The present application filed by the first respondent workman is one seeking for payment of the last drawn wages under Section 17B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”). The petitioner-Management had dismissed the first respondent herein from the services through an order dated 30.11.2013, pursuant to certain proved charges. The Approval Petition filed under Section 33 (2)(b) of the Act, dated 30.11.2013, came to be rejected by the second respondent herein on 31.01.2018 in the proceedings in A.P.No.327 of 2013. In view of the rejection of the Approval Petition, the first respondent herein is deemed to be in service, without reference to the dismissal order and since the petitioner-Management had not reinstated him back into the services, he has claimed his last drawn wages under Section 17B of the Act.

3. The present Writ Petition was filed before this Court on 17.02.2021 after more than 2 years. This is not the first time that this Court had been receiving Writ Petitions challenging either the Award of Reinstatement or the Rejection of the Approval Petition under Section 33 (2)(b) of the