Chandigarh Administration vs Jagjit Singh on 10 January, 1995
14. So far the argument of learned advocates for the Union that
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atleast notional benefit be given to the workmen is concerned, firstly
it has to be decided as to whether the workman is entitled to the
said benefit at all, and if yes, the question may crop up as to
whether he should be given the said benefit with arrears or
notionally. Since this Court has, on merits, found that the concerned
workman was not entitled to the benefit claimed by him, the
question of treating the said benefit notional or actual, would not
arise at all. This alternative argument, therefore is rejected. Since,
in some cases, the Corporation has given such benefit notionally, it
would definitely create heart burning to the workmen, however
keeping in view the above referred principle laid down by
Honourable the Supreme Court of India in the decisions in the case
of (i) Chandigarh Administration vs. Jagjit Singh reported in (1995)
1 SCC 745, and (ii) State of Bihar vs. Upendra Narayan Singh
reported in (2009) 5 SCC 65, this argument will not take the case of
the Union / workmen any further. [ It is recorded that, by the award
of the Industrial Tribunal, Ahmedabad, which is the subject matter
of Special Civil Application No.2262 of 2013, only notional benefit
is granted.]
15.1 Both the sides have relied on number of precedents of this
Court, referred above. If all those orders are taken into
consideration, the picture which has emerged is that, all those
orders can be classified in two different lines.