JUDGMENT :

Jaspreet Singh,J.

Heard Shri S. B. Pandey, learned A. S. G. assisted by Shri Deepanshu Dass for the petitioners and Km. Vishwa Mohini for the respondent.

2. By means of instant petition, the petitioners assail the order dated 19.02.2020 passed by the Presiding Officer Central Government, Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court, Lucknow in L.C.A. No.02 of 2017 whereby the application filed by the private respondent has been allowed and the petitioners have been directed to pay a sum of Rs.5,95,453 within five weeks, failing which, the workman/private respondent shall be entitled to simple interest @ 6% per annum from the date of the order till the the date of actual payment.

3. While assailing the impugned order, two grounds have been raised by the learned ASG; (1) it is submitted that the order passed by the Central Government of Industrial Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as CGIT) is wholly without jurisdiction; inasmuch as this Court in the case of Vishambhar Dayal alias Vishmbhar Lal Vs. Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central) Kendhriya Bhawan & others in Writ Petition No.984 (M/S) of 2014 decided on 19.01.2017 had directed the Assistant Labour Commissioner to decide the di