Narender Kumar And Ors vs State Of Punjab And Ors on 29 November, 1984
(ii) Mr. Batra then submits that the advertisement, pursuant whereto the
petitioners were appointed by the respondent company, in itself made it
clear that it was not obligatory on the company to absorb the apprentices
upon completion of their apprenticeship training. He also contends that
neither the appointment letter, nor the surety bond furnished by the
petitioners, cast any such reciprocal obligations on the petitioners to serve
the respondent company after the completion of their period of
apprenticeship. He submits that the petitioners had exercised their own
discretion in continuing with their apprenticeship training instead of looking
for alternate career opportunities, even though this was specifically
suggested in the communication issued by the Board on 04.02.2022, while
granting the second and last extension to the petitioners. He, therefore,
contends that not only was there no obligation on the respondents to absorb
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the petitioners, but there was also no clause in any of the documents, which
in any manner curtailed the right of the petitioners to refuse the respondents‟
offer of absorption. Once there was no such clause either in the
advertisement or in the appointment letter, the decisions in Narender Kumar
(Supra) and Sanjay Kumar (Supra) relied upon by the petitioners, which
contains a mandatory condition of absorption after the completion of the
apprenticeship period, are wholly inapplicable to the facts of the present
case.