SBCWP1441/2010 // 1 // IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR ORDER IN S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.1441/2010 Babu Lal Raigar Vs. The State of Rajasthan and Others Date of Order ::: 12.04.2010 Present Hon'ble Mr. Justice Mohammad Rafiq Shri Anil Sharma, Counsel for petitioner #### By the Court:- Heard learned counsel for petitioner. This writ petition has been filed by petitioner against order dated 03.03.2009 by which reference on question of his termination made on 01.07.1984 was declined by appropriate government on the ground of delay of 24 years. Learned counsel for petitioner has argued that petitioner had been agitating the matter through union and that petitioner's employer did not do anything to redress his grievance for this long period, and therefore the delay could not be a reason for the appropriate government to decline to make reference on the question. This issue remained alive to be decided by the Labour Court/Industrial Tribunal concerned during all SBCWP1441/2010 // 2 // these years. Upon hearing learned counsel for petitioner and perusing the impugned order, I find that looking to alleged date of termination as indicated in impugned order dated 03.03.2009, the appropriate government has rightly declined to make a reference of the matter. The petitioner has raised this issue, admittedly after 24 years from the date of his termination. It cannot be taken that the industrial dispute remained alive for all these years. No material has been produced by the petitioner to show that he made any effort to keep the issue alive. The industrial dispute thus ceases to exist much long ago and could not be taken as alive and I do not find any wrong with the appropriate government in declining to make reference of the dispute. I do not find any infirmity in the impugned order. The writ petition is dismissed. (Mohammad Rafiq) J. //Jaiman//