Vice President, Emami Paper Mills Ltd vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court

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2020 Supreme(Ori) 21

SANJU PANDA, S.K.SAHOO
Vice President, Emami Paper Mills Ltd – Appellant
Versus
Presiding Officer, Labour Court – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Nitish Kumar Mishra, Advocate, A.K. Roy, Advocate, A. Mishra, Advocate, S. Samantaray, Advocate, Suvashis Pattnayak, Advocate, S. Dash, Advocate, S.S. Sahoo, Advocate
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JUDGMENT

S. K. Sahoo, J. - The petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking for a direction to quash the impugned order dated 08.05.2015 (Annexure-4) passed by the Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Bhubaneswar in Industrial Dispute Case No.428 of 1995 in deciding the preliminary issue against the first party management (petitioner in the writ petition) and holding that the domestic enquiry conducted against the second party workman (opposite party no.2 in the writ petition) was not valid. A further prayer has been made in the writ petition to quash the award dated 30.10.2018 (Annexure-5) directing the first party management to reinstate the second party workman in service with full back wages along with all other consequential service benefits within one month from publication of the award by the Government, failing which the second party would be entitled to interest @ 6% per annum on the monetary benefit.

2. The reference which was made on 04.12.1995 by the Government of Odisha, Labour and Employment Department in exercise of the power conferred upon it by sub-section (5) of section 12 read with clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 10 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (he

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2020 Supreme(Ori) 21

SANJU PANDA, S.K.SAHOOVice President, Emami Paper Mills Ltd – AppellantVersusPresiding Officer, Labour Court – Respondent

SANJU PANDA, S.K.SAHOO
Vice President, Emami Paper Mills Ltd – Appellant
Versus
Presiding Officer, Labour Court – Respondent