{"id":239957,"date":"2003-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/united-india-insurance-vs-assistant-commissioner-labour-on-21-february-2003"},"modified":"2016-11-20T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T12:58:02","slug":"united-india-insurance-vs-assistant-commissioner-labour-on-21-february-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/united-india-insurance-vs-assistant-commissioner-labour-on-21-february-2003","title":{"rendered":"United India Insurance vs Assistant Commissioner Labour on 21 February, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jammu High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">United India Insurance vs Assistant Commissioner Labour on 21 February, 2003<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (2004) ILLJ 685 J K<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S Bashir-Ud-Din<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Bashir-Ud-Din<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>  Syed Bashir-Ud-Din, J. <\/p>\n<p> 1. Heard. In this petition award dated October 30, 2002 passed by Commissioner under Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act (Assistant Commissioner Pulwama) in proceedings file No. I\/C\/98 is challenged to the extent of award of interest and imposition of penalty. Mr. Khuroo concedes that there is alternative remedy of appeal available against the impugned order before the proper forum. Though existence of alternative remedy does not bar the jurisdiction of the writ Court to entertain the writ petition but having regard to the facts and circumstances of this case, the petitioner having an alternative remedy is left to pursue, the remedy of appeal under law, as an efficacious equitable relief available to him. Mr. Khuroo however, submits that the appeal is time barred. Section 30 of the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act extends the provisions of Section 5 of the Limitation Act to an appeal under the Act. Mr. Khuroo is free to take up the plea sought for extension of time period beyond statutory period before the appellate forum.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. In Union Construction Co. v. Chief Engineer Eastern Command, Lucknow AIR 1960 All 73 it is observed:\n<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;&#8230;&#8230;. But quite apart from the question whether or not the existence of an alternative remedy is an absolute bar to the issue of writ of mandamus, it is well known that normally a Court would not be justified in issuing it when there is a clear alternative remedy and then there is no complaint of the breach of a fundamental right.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>3. In the view taken as above the writ petition is accordingly dismissed at threshold leaving it open to Mr. Khuroo to pursue alternative remedy of appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. On request of Mr. Khuroo certified copy of the award be returned to him on supply of attested copy of the award, as counsel submits he would use certified copy while filing appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu High Court United India Insurance vs Assistant Commissioner Labour on 21 February, 2003 Equivalent citations: (2004) ILLJ 685 J K Author: S Bashir-Ud-Din Bench: S Bashir-Ud-Din ORDER Syed Bashir-Ud-Din, J. 1. Heard. In this petition award dated October 30, 2002 passed by Commissioner under Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act (Assistant Commissioner Pulwama) in proceedings file No. [&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":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-jammu-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>United India Insurance vs Assistant Commissioner Labour on 21 February, 2003 - 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\/united-india-insurance-vs-assistant-commissioner-labour-on-21-february-2003\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"United India Insurance vs Assistant Commissioner Labour on 21 February, 2003 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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