Chairman, Nagar Palika Bayana vs Labour Court, Bharatpur ... on 11 January, 2024
15. Therefore, considering that delay was caused of over 3
years and 3 months in filing the application for setting aside the
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ex-parte award passed by the learned Labour Court i.e. liberty to
file the application was granted by this Court on 16.11.1998
whereas the application was filed by the petitioner-Department on
24.04.2002; that the task of adjournments and/or repeated non-
appearance is used to kill the tenets of comprehensive justice;
that ample opportunities, as noted above, were granted to the
petitioner-Department to furnish their reply, before the initiation
of ex-parte proceedings; that repeated non-appearance breaks the
back of litigants, who seek to remedy their purported injustice
timely and relying upon the dictum of the Hon'ble Apex Court as
enunciated in Chennai Metropolitan (Supra), N. Murugesan
(Supra) and Bichitrananda Behera (Supra), Shiv Cortex
(Supra), Nandlal (Supra) and Jubeda (Supra), this Court is
inclined to dismiss the instant petition.