Advocates:
['NIPUN BAKSHI', '', 'MRINAL SINGH', 'RUBY PANDEY']

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI

W. P. (L) No. 4872 of 2015

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Employers in relation to the Management of the Food Corporation

of India through its Area Manager, Gaya, Bihar

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…Petitioner

-V e r s u s-

Their Workmen represented by the Food Corporation of India

Executive Staff Executive Union, Patna, Bihar

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...Respondent

CORAM: - HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE APARESH KUMAR SINGH

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For the Petitioner

: - Mr. Nipun Bakshi, Adv.

For the Resp.-Workmen

:-M/s M. M. Pal, Sr. Advocate.

& Mahua Palit, Adv.

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02/12.06.2017

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and respondent-workmen.

Impugned Award dated 27.02.2015 (Annexure- 5) passed in

Reference Case No. 74/2005 by the learned Central Government Industrial

Tribunal No. 1, Dhanbad has answered the Reference in favour of the 21

workmen by holding that their termination was totally illegal. They may

be allowed to continue in the job without any back wages against the

regular post.

Petitioner Food Corporation of India is a Statutory body constituted

under F.C.I Act of 1964. The reference made by the Central Government,

Ministry of Labour was in the following terms:-

“Whether the action of the management of Fo