1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH, JAIPUR. O R D E R S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION No.5433/2002. : : Virah Singh Vs.The Chief Medical & Health Officer & Anr. : : Date of Order 19.11.2008 HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Mr.D.C.Gupta for the petitioner. Mr.Hemant Gupta, Addl.Govt.Counsel for the State. Heard learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition has been directed against the award of the Labour Court dated 12.10.2000. The reference was made to the Labour Court by the appropriate Government on the ground that whether raising a industrial dispute by the workman with delay was justified and if so whether the action of the respondents in orally removing him from the service w.e.f. 2.12.1982 was legal and justify and what relief the petitioner-workman would be entitled to. Labour Court on appreciation of the arguments of the parties answered the first part of the reference in negative, holding that in view of the settled law a litigant who raises dispute after the delay of 14 years cannot be said 2 to be aggrieved person and that legal remedy would not be available to such a litigant, who is not willing to safeguard his own interest. Though the learned counsel for the petitioner has strenuously argued that there is no time limit fixed for raising the dispute. Nevertheless, in my view, dispute should be raised within reasonable time. Delay of 14 years on the face of it, cannot be ignored. In the facts of the case, no interference can be made with the award of the Labour Court dated 12.10.2000. In the result, this writ petition is accordingly dismissed. (MOHAMMAD RAFIQ)J. A.Arora/- Item No.36.