JUDGMENT :

J.J. MUNIR, J.

1. This writ petition is directed against an award of the Presiding Officer, Labour Court, U.P. Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar, dated 02.08.2017 (published on 04.10.2017) passed in Adjudication Case No. 35 of 2008. The aforesaid Adjudication Case commenced on the determination of Conciliation proceedings by the Additional Labour Commissioner, Ghaziabad vide order dated 08.07.1996 made in C.P. Case no. 155 of 1996. Based on the said order made by the Additional Labour Commissioner, an industrial dispute, under Section 4-K of the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short, the Act) in the following terms was referred vide order dated 08.07.1996 to the adjudication of the Labour Court, Ist, Ghaziabad:

Whether act of the Employers in terminating the services of their workman, Shailesh Rai son of Sri O.P. Sangram, Operator w.e.f. 10.02.1996 is lawful and/ or valid? If not, to what benefit/compensation/relief is the concerned workman entitled; with what other particulars and with effect from what date?

2. Upon receipt of reference by the Labour Court, the case was registered as Adjudication Case no. 258 of 1997 on the file of the Labour Court, Ghaziabad. The case afore