Supreme Court of India

Executive Engineer Zp Engg. Divn. and Anr. v. Digambara Rao

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Bench N. Santosh Hegde and S.B. Sinha JJ.
Decided 27 September 2004

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we are of the opinion that the Labour Court and the High Court committed a manifest error in passing the impugned D judgments and awards and as such they are liable to be set aside.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Labour Laws : Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: Res judicata-Principles-Applicability of-To an industrial adjudication-Workmen filed a writ petition before the High Court claiming for regularization of their services and also for a direction not to discontinue their services, which was dismissed- Subsequently, the workmen filed an application before the Labour Court challenging their termination­ Maintainability of-Held: It is well settled that the general principle of res judicata ·applies to an industrial adjudication-The prayer in the writ application had a direct nexus with the orders of…

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