IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5818 of 1993 Date of decision:13.11.2009 Divisional Forest Officer, Production Division, Kurukshetra ... Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal, Ambala and another. ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. D.S.Nalwa, Additional Advocate General, Haryana, for the petitioner. Mr. J.S.Manipuri, Advocate, for respondent No.2 ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The reference was sought to the Labour Court on a dispute raised by the workman, who was working as a Driver in the Forest Department. The contention was that he was employed on 04.12.1986 and was terminated on 20.11.1987. Although he had continuous service of 240 days, the mandatory requirements of Section 25-F were not followed and hence he sought for the relief of reinstatement. The Labour Court accepted the contention of the workman and directed reinstatement with back wages. At the time when admission was sought, notice had been issued only a plea raised by the management the the Forest Department was not an 'industry' within the definition as contemplated Civil Writ Petition No.5818 of 1993 - 2 - by the Industrial Disputes Act. Decisions have come about through the Hon'ble Supreme Court and this Court where a systematic activity is engaged by an establishment and which shall include the Forest Department through its workmen, would come within the four corners of the definition, in Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board Versus Rajappa-(1978) 2 SCC 213; Divisional Forest Officer, Sirsa Versus Jagdish-2003(4) RSJ 264; State of Haryana Versus Ram Avtar and another-2005(3) SCT 287. There is nothing to be addressed afresh in this writ petition and the award of the Labour Court made already stands confirmed. The writ petition is, consequently, dismissed. No costs. (K.KANNAN) 13.11.2009 JUDGE sanjeev