The Workmen through the Convener FCI Labour Federation Versus Ravuthar Dawood Naseem

Supreme Court of India (Division Bench (DB)- Two Judge)

Contempt Petition (Civil), 404 of 2019, Judgment Date: May 19, 2020

REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA 

INHERENT JURISDICTION 

CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 404/2019 IN CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10511/2011 

The Workmen through the Convener FCI Labour Federation ...Petitioner(s) 

Versus 

Ravuthar Dawood Naseem ...Respondent(s) 

With 

CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 508/2019 IN CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10511/2011 

CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 507/2019 IN CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10499/2011 

CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.........../2020 IN CIVIL 

APPEAL NO. 10499/2011 

(@ Diary No. 13740/2019) 

CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 754/2019 IN CIVIL APPEAL NO. 7961/2014 

CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 1073/2019 IN CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10499/2011 

J U D G M E N T

A.M. Khanwilkar, J. 

1. I.A. for permission to file the contempt petition(s) is allowed. 

2. These contempt petitions except Contempt Petition (Civil)  No. 754/2019 emanate from the common judgment and order of  this Court dated 20.8.2018 in Civil Appeal Nos. 10499/2011 and  10511/2011. Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 754/2019, however,  arises from a separate judgment and order of this Court on the  same subject matter and date (i.e. 20.8.2018) in Civil Appeal No.  7961/2014.

3. The grievance in these petitions is about non­compliance of direction given to the respondent­Food Corporation of India1  to regularise and departmentalise the concerned workers who had initiated industrial disputes bearing I.D. No. 39/1992 and I.D. No. 55/1993 before the Industrial Tribunal2 , Tamil Nadu, Chennai under Section 10(1)(d) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 19473 The concerned employees were employed at Depots of the Corporation in the Southern Zone of India including the States of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, as daily

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