S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.3738/2008 Hanuman Singh Solanki Vs. State of Raj. & Ors. Date of Order :: 23.7.2008 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mr. D.K. Parihar, for the petitioner. ... By this petition for writ a challenge is given to the order dated 27.10.2004 whereby the appropriate government refused to make reference of an industrial dispute being delayed by 29 years. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the grievance of the workman was regarding the non-compliance of the provisions of Section 25H of the Industrial Disputes Act that provides for grant of a preference while making fresh appointments after retrenchment, therefore, the delay occurred is immaterial. From perusal of the documents annexed with the writ petition it appears that the recruitment subsequent to retrenchment was made in the year 1981 and the dispute was raised somewhere in the year 2002. The appropriate government under sub-section (5) of Section 12 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 is having ample jurisdiction to examine as to whether a dispute is required to be referred for its adjudication. In the instant matter after due application of mind the government reached at the conclusion that the reference of the dispute for its adjudication after a lapse of 29 years shall be of no consequence. I do not find any error in the order impugned. The petition for writ is having no merit. The same, therefore, is dismissed. (GOVIND MATHUR), J. Jgoyal