Writ Petition No.2430 of 2011 16.11.2011 Shri SC Agrawal, learned counsel for the appellant. Ms. M Raveendran, learned Deputy Government Advocate for the respondents. With consent, heard finally. By this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India the petitioner has challenged the order dated 9.02.2011 passed by the Authority under the Minimum Wages Act, Labour Court Mandsaur in Case No.21/2005/Minimum Wages Act. Today, when the matter came up for hearing, the only contention raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the authority has directed payment of compensation to the extent of 10 times without assigning reasons and without due application of mind to the facts and circumstances of the case. According to him it was not a case for imposing the maximum compensation of ten times but at the most the compensation to the minimum could have been imposed. Having considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties and on going through the impugned order, we find that for imposing and levying compensation to the extent of ten times, which is the maximum limit, the learned authority has not assigned any reasons. In our considered view, this being an error apparent on the face of record, the impugned order by which compensation to the extent of maximum of ten times has been imposed, is liable to be set aside. We, accordingly, partly allow the writ petition and set aside the impugned order to the extent of imposition of the compensation to the extent ten times and remit the matter to the authority / Labour Court for deciding the question of compensation afresh. The authority is expected to take appropriate decision and impose compensation commensurate with the extent of default committed by the petitioner. With the aforesaid observations and directions, the writ petition stands allowed to the extent indicated above. C.c. as per rules. (Shantanu Kemkar) (Prakash Shrivastava) Judge Judge sourabh.