2025:BHC-AS:57052 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.9361 OF 2025 D. B. Corp. Ltd. … Petitioner Vs.

Dharmendra Pratap Singh … Respondent Mr. Avinash Jalisatgi a/w. Mr. Vishwabhushan Kamble, Mr. Mulanshu Vora and Ms. Vishakha Chokhani i/b. Jaykar & Partners for Petitioner.

Mr. Vinod Sanjiv Shetty for Respondent. CORAM : MANISH PITALE, J. DATE : DECEMBER 23, 2025 P.C. :

. The petitioner i.e. the employer has filed the present writ petition being partly aggrieved by award (Part I) dated 04.04.2025 passed by the First Labour Court at Mumbai in reference proceedings. While the petitioner has no grievance about clause (1) of the operative portion of the award, whereby it has been declared that the enquiry conducted by the enquiry officer was fair and proper, the petitioner is seriously aggrieved by clause (2) of the operative order, which has declared that the findings of the enquiry officer are perverse.

2. On the other hand, the respondent i.e. the employee supports the aforesaid conclusion of the Labour Court, declaring that the findings of the enquiry officer are perverse. Additionally, it is claimed that since the petitioner would hav