M/S AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC LTD THROU. ITS DIRECTOR SHARAD D BAL vs TUKARAM MAHADEV MEJARI

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wp1030-2025-J.doc Sayali IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.1030 OF 2025 ATUL Automatic Electric Limited, GANESH KULKARNI A-279, Road No.16-A, Wagle Industrial Digitally signed by ATUL GANESH Estate, Thane 400 604, OFFICE address: KULKARNI Date: 2026.05.08 Rectifier House, 570, Naigaon Cross Road, 12:06:26 +0530 Wadala, Mumbai - 400 031 (through Sharad D. Bal, Director) Age 55 years … petitioner Vs. Tukaram Mahadev Mejari, Shreyas Coop. Housing Society, Block No.20, Plot No.RH/152/1, MIDC Residential Area, Dombivli (East), District Thane … respondent Mrs. Anjali Purav for the petitioner. Ms. Nivedita Deshpande for the respondent. CORAM : AMIT BORKAR, J. RESERVED ON : MAY 7, 2026. PRONOUNCED ON : MAY 8, 2026 JUDGMENT: 1. By the present petition filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has called in question the legality, correctness, validity, and propriety of the impugned 1 wp1030-2025-J.doc Judgment and Order dated 25 July 2017 passed by the Industrial Court in Revision Application (ULP) No. 69 of 2017, whereby the Revision Application preferred by the petitioner came to be rejected and the Judgment and Order dated 29 May 2017 passed by the First Labour Court, Thane in Complaint (ULP) No. 281 of 2004 came to be confirmed. 2. The facts giving rise to the present petition, as pleaded and set out by the petitioner, may briefly be stated thus. The petitioner Company was having two separate manufacturing units at Thane. One of the units, namely the Meter Division, was situated at Plot No. A-279, Road No. 16-A, Wagle Industrial Estate, Thane. Apart from the said unit, the petitioner Company was also operating another Meter Division at Lonavala since the year 1960. According to the petit