IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 11.11.2010 COCP No.600 of 2010 Brij Mohan ...Petitioner Versus P.K.Aggarwal ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA Present : Mr. D.S.Sidhu, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. J.S.Puri, Addl. AG, Punjab, for the respondent. HEMANT GUPTA, J. (Oral) Reply by way of an affidavit has been filed in the Court today. The same is taken on record. The petitioner raised an industrial dispute. The learned Labour court vide its Award dated 27.07.1995 ordered the reinstatement of the petitioner with continuity of service and 50% back wages, but without the benefit of increment. The said Award was set aside by this Court in CWP No.11506 of 1996 vide order dated 16.08.2007. The petitioner claims last drawn wages in terms of Section 17-B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short ‘the Act’) from the period the writ petition was pending before this Court. Therefore, the petitioner has invoked the contempt jurisdiction of this Court. In the reply, inter alia, it has been pointed out that the petitioner has not furnished an affidavit as required under Section 17-B of the Act and, therefore, the respondents are unable to examine, whether the petitioner is COCP No.600 of 2010 entitled to wages from the date of filing of the writ petition till the date of its decision. In view of the above, I do not find that any case to continue with the present petition is made out. The same is accordingly dismissed. However, it shall be open to the petitioner to seek wages as permissible under Section 17-B of the Act by moving an appropriate application in terms of the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act before the learned Labour Court in accordance with law. Rule discharged. 11.11.2010 (HEMANT GUPTA) Vimal JUDGE 2