JUDGEMENT
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(1.) THIS writ application is directed against the order dated 4.4.1996 passed by respondent No. 6, the Project Officer (Washery), BCCL, Dhanbad of the respondents -BCCL whereby the provisional
appointment given to the petitioners has been withdrawn and they have been stopped from doing
their duties. These writ petitioners, who are 11 in number, also seek a direction upon the
respondents to reinstate them in service with full back wages pursuant to the award dated
3.3.1983 passed in Reference Case No. 58/91.
(2.) THIS case has a very chequered history. The petitioners along with others, at one point of time, were working as contract labours in the erstwhile company which was subsequently taken over by
the respon -dents -BCCL. Those employees although became the employees of the BCCL and
worked from December, 1979 to January, 1981 but they were removed from service, Consequent
there upon an industriat dispute was raised and the matter was referred to the labour Court to
adjudicate whether the management of BCCL was justified in not absorbing 39 workmen including
the petitioners as their regular employees. The award was published on 3.3.1983 and by the said
award the respondent -BCCL was directed to reinstate all those 39 workmen including the
petitioners with full back wages. When the award was not implemented, some of the beneficiaries,
18 in number, moved this Court for the implementation of the award. The matter reached up to the Supreme Court. Pursuant to the direction issued by the Supreme Court those 18 persons were
regularized in service.
The petitioner who are 11 in number, also moved this Court in 1994 vide CWJC No. 482/1994 and finally went to the Supreme Court and a similar direction was issued to the Regional Labour
Commissioner to make inquiry and record a finding with regard to genuineness of the clams of
these petitioners. Pursuant to that direction the Regional Labour Commissioner, by this report
dated 31.8.1994, held that these 11 persons are the genuine persons claiming under the award
dated 3.3.1983 and as such, they are entitled to the benefits of the said award.
(3.) WHEN the report of the Regional Labour Commissioner was not given effect to, the petitioners again moved this Court in CWJC No. 3092/94(R). The writ petition was disposed of on 4.4.1995
with a direction to the management -respondent to provisionally reinstate the petitioners and get
their identity established to their satisfaction. It was also directed that if the management so feels it
necessary, it may also get a police verification and antecedent report etc. of these petitioners.
When the said judgment was not complied with the petitioners filed MJC No. 127/95(R) which was
disposed of on 17.7.1995 with some direction which shall be referred hereinafter. The petitioners
were again identified by the Regional Labour Commissioner and a finding was recorded in favour
of the petitioners in his report dated 19.10.1995. Inspite of the aforesaid finding the petitioners
were not regularized in service, rather, their provisional appointment was withdrawn by the
impugned order dated 3/4.4.1996. One of the petitioners again moved this Court in contempt
which was subsequently converted into a writ petition being CWJC No. 1522/ 96 The said writ
petition was dismissed as withdrawn on 8.9.2003 on technical ground with liberty to the petitioner
to file a fresh writ petition. Hence this writ application.;
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