IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.12423 of 2000 Date of decision:28.08.2009 Shri Mahabir Singh ...Petitioner versus Labour Court, Hisar and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. D.S.Nalwa, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? ---- K.Kannan, J.(Oral) 1. The only question that comes for consideration before this Court is whether it is permissible for a workman who had worked in two different divisions of public health department, could seek for clubbing the number of days of service in the respective divisions and plead for a computation of continuous service exceeding 240 days to claim the benefit of Section 25-F of the Industrial Disputes Act. The Labour Court held that admittedly if his period of service in each one of the divisions were to be taken, he had not completed 240 days and he had also held that the services of daily wagers under one division could not be clubbed with the service of another division. The Labour Court held that the daily rated labourer would be controlled only by the Superintending Engineer of the respective divisions and since there are two different Civil Writ Petition No.12423 of 2000 -2- controlling authorities, it could not be taken as one establishment. This line of reasoning also finds approval from a judgment of Haryana Urban Development Authority Versus Om Pal-(2007) 2 SCC (L&S) 255, where the Hon'ble Supreme Court held that a person working in two divisions of Urban Development Authority, could not be joined merely because the Managing Director of both the divisions were the same. The statement of law squarely applies to the case and the reasoning adopted by the Labour Court, under such circumstances, was perfectly justified. 2. The writ petition is dismissed. No costs. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 28.08.2009 sanjeev