NDLI: The Workmen Through The Convener Fci Labour Federation Vs. Ravuthar Dawood Naseem

Content Provider	Supreme Court of India
e-ISSN	30484839
Language	English
Access Restriction	NDLI
Subject Keyword	Contempt of Court When not Abolition of contract labour system
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Law Judgement
Jurisdiction	India
Act(s) Referred	Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971)
Case(s) Referred	Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1 Referred Case 2 Referred Case 3 Referred Case 4 Referred Case 5 Referred Case 6
Case Type	Contempt Petition
Court	Supreme Court of India
Disposal Nature	Others
Headnote	Contempt of Court – When not – Abolition of contract labour system – Workers employed at depots of respondent-Corporation as contract labourers sought regularisation – Issue referred for adjudication – Pending references, an understanding arrived at between the parties recorded in minutes of meeting dated.12.04.1996 – Industrial Tribunal held the workmen entitled to be regularised – Award affirmed till Supreme Court – Workers regularised under Direct Payment System (DPS) – Contempt petitions filed alleging that the direction was to regularise the workers in Departmental Labour System (DLS) and not in DPS – Held: To constitute civil contempt it must be established that disobedience of the order is wilful, deliberate and with full knowledge of consequences flowing therefrom– In the present case, the issue(s) referred for adjudication was merely for regularisation – Corporation operates four systems of labour, DLS is one such system of engagement – Neither the relief in the references was specific for regularisation in DLS only nor the tribunal, the High Courts or Supreme Court was called upon to deal with that issue specifically – Petitioners assumed that DPS commenced only from 01.05.1996, whereas it is in existence from 1973 – It is not a new set up created by the Corporation pursuant to the minutes recorded on 12.04.1996 as such – Furthermore, DLS is now a dying cadre and the policy of the Corporation at the relevant time entailed regularisation of workmen only under DPS – No case made out for initiating contempt action against the Corporation and its Officers – Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 – s.10(1)(d) – Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 – s.10(1) – Labour Law.Words & Expressions – Departmentalisation – Meaning of – Explained.
Judge	Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.M. Khanwilkar
Neutral Citation	2020 INSC 401
Petitioner	The Workmen Through The Convener Fci Labour Federation
Respondent	Ravuthar Dawood Naseem
SCR	[2020] 6 S.C.R. 642
Judgement Date	2020-05-19
Case Number	404

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