1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.7929/05 Dev Karan vs. Director Tiger Project & Ors. Date of order : 27/8/2008. HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Shri Ravi Shankar Sharma for the petitioner. Shri B.L. Awasthi, Addl. Govt. Counsel for the State. ****** This writ petition has been filed against the order of the respondents refusing to make reference of industrial dispute. Contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner was engaged by respondents on 16.7.1986 and was illegally removed on 21.11.1989. The appropriate Government ought to have made the reference, rather than refusing to do so, merely on the ground of delay. It is contended that delay alone may not be a justified reason for non reference as according to the learned counsel, the relief that may be ultimately granted to the petitioner may be moulded. Shri Ravi Shankar, learned counsel submits that the petitioner is an illiterate person and therefore he could not approach to the 2 Conciliation Officer on time. The respondents have opposed the writ petition and submitted that in the present case as per own admission of the petitioner, he was removed on 21.11.1989 and he approached the Conciliation Officer on 4.9.2003 after a delay of 16 years and therefore the appropriate government rightly declined to make the reference upon consideration of the fact that there was no denial to the fact that there was an extraordinary delay of 16 years. In my view, reasons that have been assigned by the appropriate government cannot, therefore, be said to be irrelevant or otherwise extraneous. I therefore do not find any infirmity in the impugned order. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. (MOHAMMAD RAFIQ), J. RS/