LPA No. 110/2019

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HIGH COURT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AT SRINAGAR

CM No. 3065/2019

LPA No. 110/2019

Caveat No. 876/2019 Date of Order: 15.05.2019

Sameer Matoo & Anr.

Vs.

Mehraj ud din Kumar & Ors.

For appellant(s):

Mr. Shah Aamir, AAG

For respondent(s):

Mr. B.A. Misri, Adv.(caveator)

1.

By way of this application, the appellants sought condoning the delay

of 995 days in filing the Letters Patent Appeal challenging the order dated 7^th

May 2016 passed by the learned Single Judge in Contempt No. 104/2016

which arose out of a service writ petition No. 2292/2015. Writ petition SWP

No. 2292/2015 was filed by 20 persons who had been appointed as Sweepers

on daily wages by the respondents. These petitioners complained that they

were being paid a lump-sum of Rs. 4,500/- per month which was reduced to

Rs. 100/- per month. As such, SWP No. 2292/2015 was filed seeking a

prohibition against the respondents from reducing the scale of wages

admissible under the Minimum Wages Act.

2.

By an order dated 6^th November 2015, the respondents were directed to

release mi