S. No. 27 Supplementary List HIGH C0URT 0F JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR CM(M) 5/2025 NASEER AHMAD …Petitioner(s)/Appellant(s) Through: Mr. Shuja ul Haq, Advocate. Vs. DEPUTY LABOUR COMMISSIONER SRINAGAR & ORS. ...Respondent(s) Through: None. CORAM:HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE MA CHOWDHARY, JUDGE ORDER 03.01.2025 1. Petitioner through the medium of this petition moved under Article 227 of the Constitution of India seeks appropriate order or direction commanding the respondent-Deputy Labour Commissioner Srinagar to decide the claim petition titled “Naseer Ahmad vs J & K Handloom Development Corporation & Ors” and pronounce the judgment/order as expeditiously as possible not later than 15 days. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner had filed the claim petition in the month of March-2024, and, after leading the evidence, the file has been reserved for orders on 23.10.2024, however, the judgment has not been delivered so far, whereas, as per Section 25 of the Employees Compensation Act, such claims are to be disposed of within three months. 3. In view of the pleadings of the petitioner in this petition and those urged at the bar by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this petition in the considered opinion of this Court is not required to be kept on board for any further proceedings and is disposed of at this stage with a direction to the respondent-Deputy Labour Commissioner Srinagar, who is statutory authority to decide the matter in the petition titled “Naseer Ahmad vs J & K Handloom Development Corporation & Ors”, expeditiously, preferably within a period of four weeks, from the date copy of this order is made available to him. 4. Disposed of. ; (MA CHOWDHARY) JUDGE SRINAGAR 03.01.2025 Hilal Ahmad