JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioner M/s Modi Industries Ltd., Modi Nagar, District Ghaziabad, U.P. have preferred this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution challenging an award of the Presiding Officer, Labour Court, U.P., Agra dated 07.09.2012 (published on 11.03.2013) made in Adjudication Case No. 200 of 1991. By the said award (for short the 'impugned award') the Labour Court has held the termination of services of the second respondent-workman (for short the 'workman') by the petitioner-Employers (for short the 'Employers') with effect from 16.12.1989 to be illegal and improper, setting aside the Employers' order dated 16.12.1989 with a consequential direction that the workman, a Godown Keeper shall be reinstated in service with continuity, payment of balance of his salary during the period of his suspension from service and the entire back wages. The Employers were further ordered to pay the entire back wages within a period of one month from the date of enforcement of the award. The workman has also been awarded costs in the sum of Rs. 2500/-.

2. Apart from the respective case of parties, the facts leading to this writ petition are that the workman was employed by the Employ