PARAMESHWARA A R v. KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION
WP/21140/2021 · 2026-02-21
Lok Adalath
body2025
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1 HIGH COURT LEGAL SERVICES COMMITTEE, BENGALURU BEFORE THE NATIONAL LOK ADALAT
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 26TH DAY OF APRIL, 2025
CONCILIATORS PRESENT:
THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B M SHYAM PRASAD
&
SRI. B.S. PRASAD, MEMBER
W.P. No.21140/2021 (Lok Adalat No.3901/2025)
BETWEEN
PARAMESHWARA A R S/O RUDRAIAH AGED ABOUT 55 YEARS R/AT D SATHENAHALLI NEAR HALIYALAMMA TEMPLE SHRAVANABELEGOLA HOBLI CHANNARAYAPATNA TALUK HASSAN DISTRICT-573115. ...PETITIONER
(BY SRI. NAIK V S, ADVOCATE)
AND
KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION MYSORE URBAN DIVISION MYSORE-570015, BY ITS DIVISIONAL CONTROLLER REPRESENTED BY ITS CHIEF LAW OFFICER …RESPONDENT
2 THIS WP IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO CALL FOR ENTIRE RECORDS PERTAINING TO ANNEXURE-E FROM THE LABOUR COURT, MYSORE IN REF.NO.17 OF 2018 QUASH THAT PORTION OF THE AWARD DATED 31.12.2018 PASSED BY THE LABOUR COURT, MYSORE IN REF.NO.17 OF 2018 VIDE ANNEXURE-E BY WHICH THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED BACK WAGES AND RESPONDENT WAS
DIRECTED TO WITHHOLD 3 INCREMENTS OF THE PETITIONER WHICH IS ARBITRARY, UNREASONABLE AND CONTRARY TO LAW AND ETC.,
THIS WRIT PETITION COMING ON FOR CONCILIATION BEFORE NATIONAL LOK ADALAT, THE FOLLOWING CONCIALIATION ORDER IS PASSED:
CONCILIATION ORDER
In this petition, the petitioner has prayed for quashing the portion of the Award dated 31.12.2018 passed by the Labour Court, Mysuru in Ref. No.17/2018 vide Annexure-E.
After negotiations, the parties have arrived at settlement. Accordingly, both the parties have filed a Joint Memo duly signed before the Lok Adalath. The said Joint Memo reads as follows:
3 The petitioner – Corporation agreed to reinstate the Respondent – workman into service with continuity of service for the purpose of payment of terminal benefits without consequential benefits without backwages from the date of dismissal till the date of reinstatementas per the interim
order. Further, as a measure of punishment of three annual increments with cumulative effect be withheld.
Accordingly, this Writ Petition is disposed of in terms of the Joint Memo modifying the portion of the Award dated 31.12.2018 passed by the Labour Court, Mysuru in Ref. No.17/2018 vide Annexure-E denying the back wages to the petitioner and directing the petitioner to settle the respondent's entitlement as agreed as expeditiously as possible but within an outer limit of four[4] months from today.
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JUDGE
Sd/- MEMBER
NV
4 FILED BEFORE LOKADALAT HIGH COURT LEGAL SERVICES COMMITTEE, BENGALURU BEFORE THE HIGH COURT LOK ADALAT WP. NO. 2912/2020 (LOK ADALATH NO. 3902/2025) C/W WP. NO. 21140/2021 (LOK ADALATH NO. 3901/2025)
BETWEEN: KSRTC
... Petitioner
AND:
PARAMESHWARA A R
... Respondent JOINT MEMO
The WP filed against the award in Ref.No.17/2018 dated 31.12.2018 on the file of the Labour Court, Mysuru has been settled between the parties on the following terms and the award may kindly be modified as under:
The petitioner – Corporation agreed to reinstate the Respondent – workman into service with continuity of service for the purpose of payment of terminal benefits without consequential benefits without backwages from the date of dismissal till the date of reinstatementas per the interim order. Further, as a measure of punishment of three annual increments with cumulative effect be withheld.
The parties to the proceedings have agreed for the above terms.
The parties to this petition have set their hands to this settlement before the Lok Adalat in the presence of conciliators on this 26.04.2025 at Bengaluru Bench.
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Sd/- SIGNATURE OF PETITIONER SIGNATURE OF RESPONDENT
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Sd/- ADVOCATE FOR PETITIONER ADVOCATE FOR RESPONDENT