IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH

AT JABALPUR

BEFORE

HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE MANINDER S. BHATTI

th

ON THE 14 OF JANUARY, 2026

WRIT PET. (SERVICE) No. 1370 of 2004

LOKESH SHRIVASTAVA

Versus

PRESIDING OFFICER, LABOUR COURT & ANR.

Appearance:

Shri R.B. Tiwari - Advocate for the petitioner.

ORDER before the Labour Court, which is available in the record of the Labour Court, which has been requisitioned and has also been brought on record in this petition as Annexure P-3. In the said statement, the petitioner in unequivocal terms stated that he was unemployed after termination and said evidence of the petitioner remained unrebutted, therefore, the petitioner ought to have awarded the backwages as there was no denial by the employer regarding unemployment of the petitioner after passing of order of termination.

By way of this petition, the petitioner has called in question a part of

the award dated 8.9.1998 passed by the Labour Court, Rewa in I.D. Case No. 13 of 1995 by which the backwages were declined to the petitioner by the

Labour Court.

2 . The counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner had

assailed his termination by raising a dispute before the Labour Court, Rewa vide I.D. Case No. 13