JUDGMENT

Rajiv Narain Raina, J. - CM No. 4417 of 2019 - CM is allowed as prayed for. Annex. P-7 to P-9 are taken on record. As per office report, service on the respondents is complete. No one has come forward so far to defend the petition despite last opportunity to file written statement given by the interim order dated 17.07.2018. Since none has appeared for the respondents and they stand served, they are proceeded against ex-parte.

2. Notice of motion was issued in this case on the ground that the matter is covered by the decision dated 26.08.2015 passed in Rakesh and another vs. The Authority under the Minimum Wages Act & others, CWP No. 17771 of 2015 (Annex.P-6).

3. I have read my judgment and order dated 26.08.2015 in Rakesh (supra) and find that the question of jurisdiction and maintainability is verily the same regarding the application in Form 7-A presented under section 21 (1) of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for recovery of wages by the respondents/farm labour stated to be working on the agricultural fields of the present petitioner and would deem it appropriate to pass similar order as in the aforesaid case. In Rakesh case the claim was not for payment of minimum wages bu