bsb IN IN IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL CIVIL CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT WRIT WRIT PETITION NO. 1296 OF 2007 PETITION NO. 1296 OF 2007 PETITION NO. 1296 OF 2007 Shri D.R. Chawan ... Petitioner V/s Bombay Wire Ropes Ltd. ... Respondent Mr. N.M. Ganguli for the petitioner. CORAM: CORAM: CORAM: SMT. NISHITA MHATRE, J. SMT. NISHITA MHATRE, J. SMT. NISHITA MHATRE, J. DATED: DATED: DATED: 15TH JUNE, 2007. 15TH JUNE, 2007. 15TH JUNE, 2007. P.C. P.C. P.C.: 1. The petitioner challenges the award dated 3.10.2001 passed in Reference (IDA) No. 163 of 1993 by the 2nd Labour Court, Thane. The petition has been filed six years after the date of the award. There is considerable delay which has not been explained satisfactorily in the petition. The Labour Court has on the basis of the evidence recorded before it concluded that the Reference is not maintainable since the petitioner is not a "workman" as defined under Section 2(s) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. There is no perversity in the findings recorded by the Labour Court nor is there any apparent error of law on the face of the record. Hence the writ petition is rejected. 2 (SMT. NISHITA MHATRE, J.)