{"id":155685,"date":"2007-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sukumar-nath-jha-vs-the-presiding-officer-labour-on-29-november-2007-2"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T08:28:25","slug":"sukumar-nath-jha-vs-the-presiding-officer-labour-on-29-november-2007-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sukumar-nath-jha-vs-the-presiding-officer-labour-on-29-november-2007-2","title":{"rendered":"Sukumar Nath Jha vs The Presiding Officer, Labour &#8230; on 29 November, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sukumar Nath Jha vs The Presiding Officer, Labour &#8230; on 29 November, 2007<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2008 (1) JCR 409 Jhr<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Eqbal, D Patnaik<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. This appeal under Section 10 of the Letters Patent, is directed against the judgment and order passed in CWJC No. 1544 of 1999(R), whereby the learned Single Judge allowed the appeal filed by the respondent No. 2 and set aside the Award passed by the Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Ranchi in Reference Case, No. 6 of 1995.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The relevant facts which are not in dispute are that the appellant was appointed in 1984 on provisional basis as Library Book Sorter in Yogoda Satasanga Mahavidyalaya and worked up to 1990. Thereafter, appellant left the service. In 1993, the appellant again approached the respondent for giving him appointment which was considered and appellant was appointed for a fixed period as temporary employee. After expiry of the last contract period from 1.11.1993 to 28.2.1994, the appellant was informed that this service is not more required by the respondent. The appellant then raised industrial dispute and ultimately, the dispute was referred to the Tribunal for adjudication.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. The reference case was decided in favour of the appellant and the labour Court passed an Award which was challenged by the respondent by filing CWJC No. 1544 of 1999(R). Learned Single Judge besides other issues, had considered the question as to whether writ itself was maintained and after holding that educational institutions are not an industry within the meaning of 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act, allowed the writ petition and quashed the Award passed by the Tribunal.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. In course of argument, Mr. Sen, learned Counsel appearing for the appellant has not disputed the legal position settled by the Supreme Court that the Educational Institutions are not an industry within the meaning of Section 2(j) of the said Act. In that view of the matter, we are of the definite view that the learned Single Judge rightly quashed the Award passed by the labour Court holding that the respondent is neither an industry nor the appellant is a workman within the meaning of Section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. For the reasons discussed above, we do not find any merit in this appeal which is accordingly dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Sukumar Nath Jha vs The Presiding Officer, Labour &#8230; on 29 November, 2007 Equivalent citations: 2008 (1) JCR 409 Jhr Bench: M Eqbal, D Patnaik JUDGMENT 1. This appeal under Section 10 of the Letters Patent, is directed against the judgment and order passed in CWJC No. 1544 of 1999(R), whereby the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-jharkhand-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sukumar Nath Jha vs The Presiding Officer, Labour ... on 29 November, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sukumar-nath-jha-vs-the-presiding-officer-labour-on-29-november-2007-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sukumar Nath Jha vs The Presiding Officer, Labour ... on 29 November, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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