The Award of the Labour Court was impugned by the Appellants in a writ petition filed before the High Court of Karnataka.
They culminated in orders of dismissal.
Against the order of the Division Bench, the Appellants are here by special leave.
The Labour Court made its Award on 31st August, 1995.
The Appellants filed an appeal, which met the same fate at the hands of a Division Bench.
Accordingly, it directed the Appellants to reinstate the second Respondent, with stoppage of two increments with cumulative effect and deduction of full backwages from the date of dismissal till the date of this application.
The learned Single Judge who heard the writ petition found numberinfirmity in the Award.
It held that the strike was illegal, that the disciplinary inquiry was valid but that the punishment of dismissal was disproportionate to the charge.
The claimant is entitled to full back wages from the date of this application with other reliefs.
The workmen, the second Respondent included, filed applications before the Labour Court against the orders of dismissal.
It should be added that pending the disposal of the proceedings before the High Court, the second Respondent was reinstated in service on 19th July, 1996.
Against the second Respondent and about 180 other workmen, disciplinary proceedings were launched.
The application was filed by the second Respondent on 14th October, 1991.
P. Bharucha, J. Leave granted.
The Appellants run a newspaper.
There was a strike in their establishment it companymenced on 16th September, 1990 and ended in July, 1991.
