Supreme Court of India

Deputy Executive Engineer v. Kuberbhai Kanjibhai

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Reported as [2019] 1 S.C.R. 63
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 7 January 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal succeeds and is accordingly allowed in part.

Judgment, page 5

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Labour Laws – Re-instatement – Termination of daily wager – After 15 years of termination, he raised a dispute – L abour court awarded reinstatement of respondent-worker in State services but without awarding back wages to him – High Court dismissed St ate’ s writ petition and upheld the award of the labour court – On ap peal, held: The case of the respondent squarely fell in t he category discussed in Bharat Sanchar Nigam wherein the Supreme Court held that no useful purpose would be served in re-instating a daily wager and he can be given monetary compensation by the Co urt itself inasmuch

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