IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.21793 of 2008 Date of decision: 24.12.2008 Duli Chand ...Petitioner versus The Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal- ...Respondents cum-Labour Court-II, Gurgaon and others Coram: Hon'ble Mr.Justice Hemant Gupta. Hon'ble Mr. Justice Nawab Singh. Present: Mr.Vijay Pal, Advocate for the petitioner. --- Hemant Gupta, J. (Oral) The challenge in the present writ petition is to the Award dated 01.02.2008 (Annexure P-2), whereby an Industrial Dispute raised by the petitioner was answered against him. It is the case of the petitioner that he was engaged as a Beldar in the year, 1976 as a daily wager. However, on 01.01.1997, his services were wrongly and illegally terminated. Though the petitioner has stated before the learned Labour Court that Ramphal, Banwari, Amar Singh and Anaro were regularized, but it has not been pointed out that such named persons were engaged later than the petitioner and thus junior. The learned Labour Court has returned a finding that the petitioner has not worked for 240 days in the period of 12 months immediately preceding the date of his termination. Therefore the provisions of Section 25-F of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short CWP No.21793 of 2008 - 2 - 'the Act') are not applicable. It has been found that the petitioner has not completed 240 days in a year from 1977 to 1995 except in the year 1981 and 1986. In view of the said finding and also keeping in view the principles of law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in cases reported as Ghaziabad Development Authority & another Vs. Ashok Kumar & another, 2008 (4) SCC 261, Mahboob Deepak vs. Nagar Panchayat, Gajraula, (2008) 1 SCC 575, M.P. Administration Vs. Tribhuwan, (2007) 9 SCC 748, Utrranchal Forest Development Corpn. Vs. M.C. Joshi, (2007) 2 SCC (L&S) 813, State of M.P. and others Vs. Lalit Kumar Verma, (2007) 1 SCC 575, we do not find any illegality and irregularity in the impugned order passed by the learned Labour Court which may warrant interference of this Court in exercise of its writ jurisdiction. Dismissed. (HEMANT GUPTA) JUDGE (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 24.12.2008 sanjeev