High Court Jharkhand High Court

Employers, Amlabad Project vs Their Workmen on 20 July, 2011

Jharkhand High Court
Employers, Amlabad Project vs Their Workmen on 20 July, 2011
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI      
                  W.P. (L) No.5914 of 2005

 Employers in relation to the management of Amlabad Project of M/s Bharat 
 Coking Coal Limited, Bokaro                                    ...... Petitioner
                               Versus 
 Their workmen Anand Moyee Chatterjee, being represented by its Vice 
 President, Dhanbad                                             ...... Respondent
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 CORAM:  HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE D.N. PATEL  
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For the Petitioner                    :    Mr. Anoop Kumar Mehta, Advocate
For the Respondents                   :    Mr. Smita Mitra, Advocate 
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 16/Dated: 20     July, 2011
                                 

1.             Present petition has been preferred only for the limited issue to 
the   effect   that   petitioner   may   be   allowed   to   take   evidence   before   the 
concerned   Central   Government   Industrial   Tribunal­2   at   Dhanbad   in 
Reference   No.87   of   2004.   The   tribunal,   by   impugned   order   dated 
08.07.2005

, which is at Annexure­7 to the memo of appeal, has not allowed 
the management to lead evidence.  

2. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that they are not 
pressing   any   preliminary   point   to   be   raised   and   to   be   decided   by   the 
tribunal, even if it is raised, the preliminary issue may be decided with the 
reference  at   the  time   of   final   hearing   or   at  the   time  of  final   award  but 
evidence may be allowed to be led by the management for the disputes in 
question.  

3. Learned counsel for the respondent submitted that preliminary 
issue   cannot   be   decided   separately   because   unnecessarily   time   will   be 
wasted in deciding preliminary issue and therefore, they have no objection 
for   adducing   evidence   before   the   Industrial   Tribunal   for   the   disputes   in 
question.

4. In view of this limited submission, I hereby allow the petitioner 
to adduce documentary as well as oral evidences in support of their claim 
and in support of their submissions  as well as for the disputes in question 
before   the   Central   Industrial   Tribunal­2,   Dhanbad   in   pending   reference 
No.87 of 2004 without wasting any time.  

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that they will not 
ask   for   any   unnecessary   adjournment   and   if   the   respondents   are   not 
objecting, the evidences will be completed expeditiously.  

6. In view of the aforesaid limited modification, the order passed 
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by   the   Central   Industrial   Tribunal­2,   Dhanbad   dated   08.07.2005, 
Annexure­7 to the memo of petition, is modified.  Evidences are allowed to 
be   adduced   by   the   petitioner.     I   hereby   direct   the   Central   Government 
Industrial Tribunal­2, Dhanbad to expedite the hearing of reference No.87 
of   2004   and   the   tribunal   will   not   give   unnecessary   adjournment   to   the 
parties in reference.  

7. This writ petition is allowed to the aforesaid matters with the 
aforesaid modification.

                             (D.N. Patel, J.)
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