The Divisional Controller vs Karankumar

Citation : 2024 Latest Caselaw 14862 Kant
Judgement Date : 27 June, 2024

Karnataka High Court

The Divisional Controller vs Karankumar on 27 June, 2024

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                                                          WA No.200022 of 2024




                                IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA,

                                       KALABURAGI BENCH

                              DATED THIS THE 27TH DAY OF JUNE, 2024

                                            PRESENT

                             THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHOK S. KINAGI
                                               AND
                               THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH RAI K

                             WRIT APPEAL NO.200022 OF 2024 (L-KSRTC)

                      BETWEEN:

                      THE DIVISIONAL CONTROLLER,
                      NORTH EAST KARNATAKA,
                      ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION,
                      KALABURAGI DIVISION,
                      KALABURAGI - 585 101.
                                                                   ...APPELLANT
                      (BY SRI DEEPAK V.BARAD, ADVOCATE)

                      AND:

Digitally signed by   KARANKUMAR
BASALINGAPPA
SHIVARAJ              S/O HULEPPA,
DHUTTARGAON
Location: HIGH        AGE ABOUT 38 YEARS,
COURT OF              OCC: NIL (EX. DRIVER-CUM-CONDUCTOR
KARNATAKA
                      NO.LC-342, DEPOT NO.II),
                      R/O: BASVAKALYAN,
                      DIST: BIDAR - 585 401.
                                                                 ...RESPONDENT

                           THIS WRIT APPEAL IS FILED UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE
                      KARNATAKA HIGH COURT ACT, PRAYING TO SET ASIDE THE
                      ORDER DATED 13.07.2023 TO THE EXTENT OF THE WRIT
                      PETITION NO.203333/2019 PASSED BY THE LEARNED SINGLE
                      JUDGE, CONSEQUENTLY BE PLEASED TO DISMISS THE WRIT
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                                          WA No.200022 of 2024




PETITION FILED BY THE RESPONDENT               HEREIN, IN THE
INTEREST OF JUSTICE AND EQUITY.

    THIS WRIT APPEAL COMING ON FOR ORDERS THIS DAY,
ASHOK S. KINAGI J., DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:

                            JUDGMENT

This writ appeal is filed challenging the order dated 13.07.2023 passed in W.P.No.203333/2019 by the learned Single Judge. The writ petition filed by the petitioner is held to be under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, and Co-ordinate bench of this Court in the case of Management of Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd., Bangalore Vs. Bharat Fritz Werner Karmika Sangha Bangalore, reported in AIR Online 2022 KAR 4396, held that the intra Court appeal is not maintainable against the order passed by the learned Single Judge being a challenge to the judicial order of the Labour Court. The co-ordinate Bench of this Court referring the order passed in Management of Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd. (supra) in W.A.No.100230/2023, disposed of on 12.04.2023, held that the intra Court appeal is not maintainable. The appellant, in the said writ appeal aggrieved by the order -3- NC: 2024:KHC-K:4354-DB WA No.200022 of 2024 dated 12.04.2023, preferred Special Leave Petition before the Hon'ble Apex Court in SLP (Civil) Diary Nos.32290/2023. The Hon'ble Apex Court vide order dated 15.03.2024 dismissed the Special Leave Petition and observed as under:

"We see no infirmity with the view taken by the Division Bench of the High Court in the impugned orders. The special leave petitions are accordingly dismissed."

2. In view of the law laid down in the case of Management of Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd. Bangalore, the intra Court appeal filed by the appellant is not maintainable. Accordingly, writ appeal is dismissed as not maintainable.

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