CWP No. 17349 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH CWP No. 17349 of 2011 Date of decision September 22, 2011 M/s Valco Industries Limited ....... Petitioner Versus Chandigarh Administration and others ........Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present:- Mr. Sanjeev Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. **** 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ?No 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? No 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest?No K. Kannan, J (oral). 1. The writ petition challenges the State Government's reference to the Labour Court for an adjudication of an Industrial dispute raised by the fourth respondent. The contention of the petitioner is that the 4th respondent was not even a workman and there could not have been a reference without adverting to the objection by the petitioner before the Conciliation Officer. A reference which directs an adjudication of whether the services of the petitioner was terminated illegally will take within its compass the detail of even whether he was a workman under the petitioner Company or not. The points which are taken before this Court falls very much within the scope of reference and I do not find that there is any error in the reference order made by the State, for intervention. The writ petition is dismissed but the petitioner will be CWP No. 17349 of 2011 2 competent to urge that fourth respondent was not a workman as contended by him and it shall be left to the Labour Court to adjudicate on the merits of the claims of respective parties. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE September 22 , 2011 archana