Supreme Court of India

Bharat Iron Works v. Bhagubhai Balubhai Patel & Ors.

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Reported as [1976] 2 S.C.R. 280
Bench A. Alagiriswami, P. K. Goswami and N. L. Untwalia JJ.
Decided 10 October 1975

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What the Court ordered

In the result the appeal is allowed and the order of the High Court as well as the orders of the Tribunal are set aside.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947-Victimisation-Tests for determining-Labour Tribunal-Jurisdiction u/ s. 33. Ordinarily a person is victimised if he is made a victim or a scapegoat and is subjected to persecution, prosecution or punishment for no real fault or guilt of his own. If actual fault or guilt meriting punishment is established, such action will be rid of the taini of victimisation. [283F] ii Victimisation may partake of various types, as for example, pressurising an employee to leave the union or union activities, treating an employee in a discriminatqry manne_r or inflicting a grossly

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