{"id":244974,"date":"2001-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/prantij-nagar-panchayat-vs-kantilal-gandabhai-prajapati-on-12-june-2001"},"modified":"2016-05-16T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:18:08","slug":"prantij-nagar-panchayat-vs-kantilal-gandabhai-prajapati-on-12-june-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/prantij-nagar-panchayat-vs-kantilal-gandabhai-prajapati-on-12-june-2001","title":{"rendered":"Prantij Nagar Panchayat vs Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati on 12 June, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Prantij Nagar Panchayat vs Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati on 12 June, 2001<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2002 (95) FLR 189<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: R R Tripathi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R R Tripathi<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Ravi R. Tripathi, J.   <\/p>\n<p> 1.  Mr. Ashish Shah, learned advocate for the petitioner states that though rule is served on the respondent, Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati, he has not caused his appearance before this Court. Mr. Shah further informed that in fact, Mr. Kantilal G. Prajapati was Sarpanch of village Nandol, Taluka Dehgam, district Ahmedabad. Therefore, as per his information he is not interested in implementation of the award, which is under challenge before this Court in the present petition.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. Taking into consideration the fact that the respondent was working in Octroi Department and that as per the reply at exh.15 filed by the present petitioner, the Octroi Department, Prantij Nagar Panchayat, is closed. The work of collecting octroi was given on contract basis. Mr. Shah, learned advocate also submitted that now in the changed circumstances when the octroi is already abolished, there is no question of complying with the award in question, by which the respondent is ordered to be reinstated on the original post. Mr.Shah, learned advocate also invited attention of the Court to the contents of para 9 of the award, wherein it is stated that the respondent was having business of brick kiln and was also running a Maruti van on hire basis and serving with The Vardhaman Seva Sahkari Mandali Limited.\n<\/p>\n<p> 3. In view of the discussion hereinabove, the present petition is allowed. The impugned award of the Labour Court, Himatnagar dated 16.8.1999, Annexure &#8216;A&#8217; to the petition is quashed and set aside. Rule is made absolute. No order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Prantij Nagar Panchayat vs Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati on 12 June, 2001 Equivalent citations: 2002 (95) FLR 189 Author: R R Tripathi Bench: R R Tripathi JUDGMENT Ravi R. Tripathi, J. 1. Mr. Ashish Shah, learned advocate for the petitioner states that though rule is served on the respondent, Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati, he [&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":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prantij Nagar Panchayat vs Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati on 12 June, 2001 - 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\/prantij-nagar-panchayat-vs-kantilal-gandabhai-prajapati-on-12-june-2001\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prantij Nagar Panchayat vs Kantilal Gandabhai Prajapati on 12 June, 2001 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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