SCA/2124/2021

NEUTRAL CITATION C/SCA/2124/2021 JUDGMENT DATED: 17/12/2025 2025:GUJHC:73405 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 2124 of 2021 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK ========================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No - No ========================================== STATE OF GUJARAT Versus FULAJI UMEDJI THAKOR & ANR. ========================================== Appearance: MS FORAM TRIVEDI AGP for the Petitioner(s) No. 1 MR PH PATHAK(665) for the Respondent(s) No. 1 MS REENA M KAMANI(6007) for the Respondent(s) No. 1 NOTICE SERVED for the Respondent(s) No. 2 ========================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 17/12/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT 1. The petitioner – State of Gujarat has filed this petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India challenging the impugned award dated 03.02.2017 passed by the learned Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Mehsana in Reference (L.C.M.) No. 948 of 2008 (Old Reference No. 45 of 2008), whereby the Labour Court has partly allowed the reference and ordered to reinstate the workman in service with continuity of