High Court Karnataka High Court

Sri B N Mahesha vs The Divisional Controller The … on 21 November, 2008

Karnataka High Court
Sri B N Mahesha vs The Divisional Controller The … on 21 November, 2008
Author: A.S.Bopanna
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{By MISS SPHLPA K.S. ADV. FOR SR1 N K RAMESH)

TH!S WRIT PE’E’I’I’ION [S FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 85
227 OF THE CONSTITLWION OF’ INDIA. WITH A PRAYER’*TO;
QUASH THE IMPUGNED AWARD DATED 23.12.2004 PASSED BY

THE msouse mum’ AT mvsores IN 11:) No.122/99 vzrnsabsx’-‘-.

D AND ALSO QUASH VEDE ANX~A; 21112201′ THE RESPO¥;iD_ENT_
TO REINS’I’A’1’E THE PETITIONER BACK mro saw-1cEA’mr:m”——.T ~
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CONSEQUENTIAL BENEWTS. INCLUDHIG,ffiJLL–‘BAt”3§{“WACiES, ‘
mom THE DATE 09* REMvA1,”1*1LL« ‘_THE-;’ DATE. “op
RE§.NS’I’A’I’EMENT, UNDER ms mcms Ar;:*o%.c:RcuMs’rA2§c:Es:g

OF THE CASE.

This Writ Pefiiian oomingjona rorVhca’n;;g, flay,

Court made the foilowing :

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The in qucsfion the award tiataed

.i1;___I«.&I.D.No.122/99. By the said awavsti,

%”%._Vth¢”z.abaur.% has dismissed the petition filed by the

p¢aam: 10(4-A) ofthe i.D.Act.

V’ n the lcazrned counsel for the parties and

the writ papers.

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3. The pefitioner was worrkzing as a b

homing token No..125 in the

mspondcnt is said to have abséfii

and as such the petitioner was ‘the
C-orporatiolta vidc order “‘ti§_;§;cd to be
aggrieved by the same, ‘A the Labour
Court. The the claim put
forth by ,Court on oonsidefing
the rival, the application. The
pefifi0n¢’;:r,_ is = Court assailing the said

award.

.A of that awazd would indicate that the

sesgjénaeiaiimargagémeaat had urged before the Labour Court

V . that ‘he “—fnéfificncr had rammed umautborisedly absent

u onwaztia It. was fuzther contended that even

instances fmm 37.7.1993’ to 8.9.1997 had

T “r-zémained absent and thereafter also on two other occasions,

” Vhfi was unauthorismily absent for a pcfiod cf 82 days and 54

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days respectively. The Labour Court on noticigfg ‘

contentions and the said dates had. ‘A a

respondent had remained unauthizfisédlj zibséfiii

present instance: and aiso on etiriiaag’ occasions. A

5. As against the: send’ dbniention “pu«f T£’rti1′:§ by the
management and the finciiiags the Court,
the petitioner oantcnds tl3at’flA;e Ififas at that time

suffeting fimn stpmacki ac1ie ” az1_¢i_f’as such he was

undcI”gc.:-E_zA1g £11: year 199? and as such

during thé though he was irregular

he made 1:ti$~,?:1; c:#t efforts to «discharge his duties. It is

fiufiezj the fact that the petitioner had joined the

1992 and til: the year 1997 then: was 110

V V’ _ (:om153ain.$s’e3f’«:’i1:c1autI3o;i2ncd absence or any other nature is to

while bolting to this aspect of the matter

, the limited period when he was tmauthcrrisedly

VA abércnt and that was due to serious i.1l–hea}th .

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6. In this regaxti, the Labour Couxt has noticed.-.___fl1e

action by the respo11dent«manage:t11e;ut £i3_V:ic¥w_’

nature of the evidence tendexed through MW} ‘

end” ence tendered flzmugll WW1. Since’ ‘

has been noticed, to that extent

cmxtmations, it cannot be the 5&3
cued in the matter. However, zeqgims. is
that the Labour Cotnrf ire;-3 _ ._cenaide1ed the

oontcntioirsa (xi “”t}”:.-ifizion on the aspect as to
whethcriflze’ was commensurate to

the natu1*eV of_VMtine ” Therefore, to the sald’

, have to consider this aspect of the

out as to whether the punishment of

or as no whether the Ieiief requires to

-vbe other manner.

A, j 7.. nothing this aspect of the matter, the fact

VA petitioner was in sersrioe from the years’ 1992 is not

:,’i;;__éEispute. Even as per the allegation of the respondents,

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the petitioner thcugh was unautboriscdly abscfii’ Qfi V’

earlier occasion, the same had started ‘

anwaxds. In this regard, the

contention with regard to his
duning the said period. aég had
not got the have the Medical
Certificate, whens. vIi0i’.i(::£-” V ” by the
management. before the
res,po13dc13t:3…TT’1′;3».1;e3;»«:ii=:; older dated 4.6.1999
which ‘Via, to the petition.

Considering sfibwquenfly, he has produced the

_ that had mmailized absent due to

‘:_Vilh§e;=_=5V, a%§;¥c%aai; ‘i{>___thc extent of providing an opporturzity to

and reform himseif, the same should

— V havc”.4B3¢I}:§.>OIi%ide1’e:d.

In this rcgmd, I am of the new’ that even if the

VT drticr of dismissal is interfered and if an cipportuility is

3 gmnted to the: petitioner to mftsazm hixnscif, this. Court: should

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also mice into consideration the izatcrast of “,

respondent-Corporatricm 5:) that they should not ”

Wh1Ie’ this Court is exweising its disxzxweztéail V

I 1-A of the I.D.AcL Therefore,

by the Labour (301111: in ‘bf
the View that the saint, ‘calls 3 the

proportionality of the cfzinsidezved.

9. 23.12.2004 to the
sand’ VV’G;Jhseqnenfly, the carrier dated

4.6.1999 ?.)yVV1l1_<§'zfc's;'1:;é;ndent-management also stands

Th€ 'I'£#$pQ'fldE}1t[CDrp0I'ati0fi are thcrcfozc

the petitioner into service to the pest

at the three of his dismissal on

V .I*"id;uvcvcr, it is made char that the Pfifitiancr

'_nc: f cntitked to any backwages or oonscqttcnfial

Further the period fmm 6.2.1999 i.e., the date on

'T % 'whiéh he had remained unauthsmisedly absent ran the date

u "on which this petition was presented before this Court

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i.c., 9.1.2006 shall not be Iwkonw liar

cantinuity of sczvzoe" since the ¢xc'Vi"uM:§i611*

substituted punishment.

With the ahovtgr …Vmoei..i’hca”” dmuoné and
clarification” 5;, the petition’. V _’ no order

as to costs.

301/’9:

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