Apex court digest - Jan.2017 [3],
the Award passed by the Labour Court and confirmed by the High Court, wherein the workman was directed to be reinstated with 50% backwages. conferring benefit of doubt, he has been acquitted in the case and, thereafter, he has been reinstated. The appellants, therefore, contend that the respondent was kept out of service only on account of his involvement in the criminal case, as warranted by the Service Regulations concerned and hence, there is no justification in granting him backwages. Apex court Held that we had made it clear that the scope is limited only to the question of backwages. In the above circumstances, the appeal is allowed to the extent that the respondent will be entitled to all service benefits ...