Supreme Court of India

Himmat Singh and Ors. v. L.C.I. India Ltd. and Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 2 S.C.R. 235
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasayat and P. Sathasivam JJ.
Decided 31 January 2008

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Labour laws: Principles of estoppel, waiver and acquiescence - Applicability of, to industrial adjudication - Definite stand by employees that they were working under contractors - Contradictory and inconsistent plea that they were also workmen of the principal employer - Permissibility of - Held: Raising such a mutually destructive· plea is impermissible, in law - Common law principles of estoppel, waiver a'(id acquiescence are applicable in an industrial adjudication - Uttar Pradesh Contract Labour (Regularisation and Abolition) Rules, 1975 - Rule 25(v)(a) - Contract Labour (Regulation and

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