Civil Revision No. 7887 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No. 7887 of 2011 Date of decision:- 20.12.2011 Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court-I, Gurgaon and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present:- Mr. Jagdeep Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Pankaj Jain, Advocate for the caveator-respondent No.2. RITU BAHRI J. The petitioner-Management has aggrieved by the order dated 15.7.2011 (Annexure P-4) passed by the Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court-I, Gurgaon vide which the application for setting aside the ex-parte award dated 24.12.2010 has been dismissed. The undisputed facts are that the petitioner— Management had received summons of the case and engaged Shri Jawahar Lal Gugnani, Advocate to appear in the case. After receiving the full professional fee the Advocate neither appear Civil Revision No. 7887 of 2011 -2- before the Court nor informed the Management about the same. The ex-parte Award was passed on 24.12.2010. An application was filed for setting aside this award on 28.4.2011. This application has been rejected by the Industrial Tribunal-cum- Labour Court, Gurgaon on the ground that the application was filed after 30 days of the passing of the Award dated 24.12.2010. The Labour Court had become functuous officio and was no jurisdiction to entertain the application. The plea taken in the revision is that the counsel appointed by the petitioner did not inform the Management about the proceedings in the Tribunal. Once the Management was aware about the pendency of the reference, it was for the Management to take necessary arrangement to defend itself. The evidence of the workman has gone unrebutted. No case to interfere in the impugned order is made out. The civil revision is dismissed. December 20, 2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Vijay Asija JUDGE