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TMI Blog2010 (4) TMI 965X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... change, the names of the workmen were sponsored and they were engaged as casual labourers in 1985 in Central Telegraph Office / District Telegraph Office, Bhopal. They continued as such upto February 10, 1987. During this period, the workmen had completed 240 days in each year. Vide order dated February 10, 1987, the services of the workmen were discontinued in the Central Telegraph Office / District Telegraph Office and they were asked to report in the office of A.E. (Cables) CTX, Bhopal. The case of the workmen is that they reported in the office of A.E. (Cables) CTX, Bhopal but they were not taken on duty on the pretext that there were no vacancies. On the other hand, the appellant claims that the workmen did not report for duty in the o ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... earned senior counsel submitted that the erstwhile Central Telegraph Office / District Telegraph Office, Bhopal where the workmen were engaged was an establishment of the Post and Telegraph Department, Government of India and, therefore, it was not an `industry' under the ID Act. He, however, did not dispute that this plea was not raised by the appellant in reply before the Tribunal. No such point was argued before the Tribunal. As a matter of fact, even before the High Court, no such plea was raised in the writ petition nor argued on behalf of the appellant. In the circumstances, we do not deem it appropriate to permit the appellant to raise this plea for the first time in this appeal. 4. Learned senior counsel for the appellant then subm ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Administration v. Tribhuban(2007) 9 SCC 748, Sita Ram Ors. v. Moti Lal Nehru Farmers Training Institute(2008) 5 SCC 75, Jaipur Development Authority v. Ramsahai Anr. (2006) 11 SCC 684, Ghaziabad Development Authority Anr. v. Ashok Kumar Anr. (2008) 4 SCC 261 and Mahboob Deepak v. Nagar Panchayat, Gajraula Anr. (2008) 1 SCC 575). 7. In a recent judgment authored by one of us (R.M. Lodha, J.) in the case of Jagbir Singh v. Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board and Anr. (2009) 15 SCC 327, the aforesaid decisions were noticed and it was stated : "7. It is true that the earlier view of this Court articulated in many decisions reflected the legal position that if the termination of an employ ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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