IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (I) CWP-7572-2013 Reserved on: 16.09.2025 Pronounced on: 04.12.2025 Uploaded on: 09.12.2025 THE CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER, STATE BANK OF INDIA -PETITIONER VERSUS PRESIDING OFFICER, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL CUM LABOUR COURT-I, CHANDIGARH AND ANR.

-RESPONDENTS (II) CWP-14094-2013 DARSHAN SINGH -PETITIONER V/S STATE BANK OF INDIA AND OTHERS -RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KULDEEP TIWARI Present: Mr. Vikas Chatrath, Advocate, and Mr. Abhishek Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-7572-2013) and for the respondent No.1 (in CWP-14094-2013).

Mr. Tara Chand Dhanwal, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-14094-2013) and for the respondent No.2 (in CWP-7572-2013).

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KULDEEP TIWARI, J. (ORAL)

1. The amenability of both these writ petitions for being decided through a common verdict generates from theirs encompassing challenge to a common award dated 23.06.2010, whereby the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court-I, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as the “Industrial Tribunal”) has set aside the termination order of the workman/Darshan Singh and directed the management/State Bank of India to reinstate