RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION v. SHRI SUKHDEV SINGH SON OF SHRI MADAN SINGH BARATH
SAW/710/2025 · 2026-07-16
Inderjeet Singh, Sandeep Taneja
body2026
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[2026:RJ-JP:27024-DB] HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR D.B. Special Appeal Writ No. 710/2025 URN: SAW / 1546U / 2025
1. Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation, Through Its Managing Director, Parivahan Marg, Jaipur.
2. Divisional Manager, Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation, Parivahan Marg, Jaipur ----Appellants Versus
1. Shri Sukhdev Singh Son Of Shri Madan Singh Barath, Juin Endla, Post Guda Endla, District Pali.
2. Judge, Labour Court-I, Jaipur.
3. Permanent Lok Adalat, Rajasthan High Court Legal Aid Committee, Jaipur Bench, Jaipur. ----Respondents For Appellant(s) : Mr. Prateek Mathur with Mr. Utkarsh Dubey For Respondent(s) : Mr. Manoj Pareek HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE INDERJEET SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANDEEP TANEJA
Order 16/07/2026
1. The instant appeal has been preferred on behalf of the appellants – Department challenging the order dated 18.10.2024 passed by learned Single Judge in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.3210/2010 (RSRTC through its Managing Director & Ors. v. Shri Sukhdev Singh).
2.
Learned counsel for the appellants submits that learned Single Judge vide order dated 18.10.2024 has decided the writ petition in the light of earlier order passed in the case of Virendra Singh v. Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.14440/2023). Learned counsel further submits that the aforesaid writ petition was challenged by the
[2026:RJ-JP:27024-DB] (2 of 3) [SAW-710/2025] Department – RSRTC before the Division Bench of this Court in the matter of Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation & Ors. v. Virendra Singh (D.B. Special Appeal Writ No.605/2024) and the same was decided vide order dated 16.02.2026, which reads as under:-
“These Special Appeal (Writs) are disposed of in following term(s) as agreed and requested by learned Senior Counsel for the appellants and the learned counsels for the respondents:-
1. The award dated 12.11.2022 passed by National Lok Adalat is modified in following terms:
1.1. The respondents/employees shall not been titled for back wages and rest of the award is maintained.
1.2. Compliance shall be made within a period of eight weeks from today. Pending application(s), if any, also stands disposed of.”
3. In view of the above, learned counsel for the appellants prays for passing of the similar order in the present matter also.
4. We have perused the order dated 16.02.2026 passed by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in the case of Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation & Ors. v. Virendra Singh (supra), wherein the Co-ordinate Bench has modified the order passed by the Permanent Lok Adalat that the respondents/ employees shall not be entitled for back-wages and rest of the award was maintained.
5. Today, learned counsel for the respondent No.1 – Employee submits that he will not claim any back-wages from the Department – RSRTC and submits that the payment already
[2026:RJ-JP:27024-DB] (3 of 3) [SAW-710/2025] received by him shall also not be recovered by the Department – RSRTC.
6.
Learned counsel for the appellants has no serious objection with regard to the submission made by learned counsel for the respondent – employee hereinabove.
7. In that view of the matter, we dispose of the present appeal with a clarification that the employee shall not be entitled for back-wages, however, if any amount towards back-wages has been received by the employee, the same shall not be recovered from him.
8. Pending applications, if any, also stand disposed of.
(SANDEEP TANEJA),J (INDERJEET SINGH),J 10/SAHIL SONI