JUDGMENT

(Prayer: W.P. No.8650 of 2014: filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying this Court to issue a writ of certiorari to call for the records relating to the award passed by the 2nd respondent, viz., Principal Labour Court, Vellore, made in Computation Petition No.215 of 2007 dated 31.08.2010 and quash the same.

W.P. No.29174 of 2016: filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying this Court to issue a writ of certiorari to call for the records relating to the award passed by the 2nd respondent, viz., Principal Labour Court, Vellore, made in Computation Petition No.215 of 2007 dated 31.08.2010 and quash the same.)

1. Assailing the order passed by the Addl. Labour Court ordering the petitions filed u/s 33-C (2) of the Industrial Disputes Act and directing the petitioner to pay the monetary amount, as quantified in the said petitions therein, the present writ petitions have been filed.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that the 1st respondent in W.P. No.8650/14, since deceased (for brevity, will be referred to as ‘workman), was employed as a contract labour from 1980 and worked under the petitioner till 3.2.1998. Thereafter, his services were regul