C.O.C.P. No.894 of 1995 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** C.O.C.P. No.894 of 1995 Date of Decision:12.10.2010 Malkiat Singh .....Petitioner Vs. Kulbir Singh .....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA Present:- Mr. M.S. Bedi, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Vineet Yadav, Advocate for Mr. A.R. Takkar, Advocate for the respondent. **** The petitioner has raised an industrial dispute under Section 10 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, which was referred for adjudication to Industrial Tribunal, Punjab, Chandigarh. In the said reference, the learned Industrial Tribunal ordered that the services of the petitioner be regularised from the date of his initial appointment. The writ petition against the said award was dismissed by this Court on 23.8.1994. Since the services of the petitioner were not regularised, the petitioner filed the present contempt petition before this Court. Learned counsel for the petitioner has pointed out that during the pendency of the contempt petition, the Municipal Corporation has passed an order on 30.9.1995 regularising the services of the petitioner with effect from 8.6.1989, the date of judgment of the Labour Court. It is thus C.O.C.P. No.894 of 1995 -2- contended that in terms of the award of the Industrial Tribunal, the services of the petitioner were to be regularised from the date of initial appointment, i.e., 1.4.1981 but the same has been regularised with effect from 8.6.1989, therefore, the respondent is in contempt. Since the Industrial Tribunal has held that the petitioner is entitled to be regularised from the date of initial appointment, the present contempt petition is disposed of with a direction to the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Amritsar to consider the grant of benefit of regulrisation from date of initial appointment. The contempt petition is disposed of accordingly. October 12, 2010 ( HEMANT GUPTA ) renu JUDGE