COCP No. 2110 of 2010 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH COCP No. 2110 of 2010 Date of Decision: 12.11.2010 Birender Singh .....Petitioner Versus A.K. Yadav ….Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA 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? Present: Shri Ashwani Kumar Bura, Advocate, for the petitioner. Hemant Gupta, J. (Oral) The petitioner raised an industrial dispute. The Labour Court on such reference announced Award on 23.12.1994 directing reinstatement of the petitioner with full back wages. Such Award rendered by the Labour Court was challenged by the Management in the writ petition before this Court. The Award passed by the Labour Court was modified to the extent that the workman would be entitled to reinstatement in service with continuity thereof with 50% back wages. This Court also directed the Management to pay back wages to the workman within a period of two months from the date the workman reports for the duty. COCP No. 2110 of 2010 [2] The petitioner has invoked the contempt jurisdiction of this Court alleging that the direction of this Court for payment of the backwages has not been complied with. Every direction issued by the Court does not disclose a civil contempt. It has been so held by the Full Bench of this Court in Parkash Chand v. S.S. Grewal and others, 1975 Crl.L.J. 679. The petitioner has efficacious alternative remedy to seek execution of the Award under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. Therefore, I do not find that any case is made out for initiation of contempt proceedings. Hence, the present petition is dismissed. (Hemant Gutpa) 12-11-2010 Judge ds