DADA LALCHAND JADHAV vs FACTORY MANAGER, GARDEN SILK MILLS LTD. Advocate - UDAYAN TRIVRDI, U S TRIVEDI — 11/2024

Case Summary: Misc. Appli. (I.C.) No. 11/2024 Court Decision: The Second Industrial Court, Surat granted the petitioner Dada Lalchand Jadhav's application to condone a 138-day delay in filing an appeal against a Labour Court order dated February 10, 2023, under Section 84(2) of the Gujarat Industrial Relations Act. The court accepted the petitioner's reasons for delay, including displacement from his registered address, financial hardship, and physical illness, finding that substantive justice and the interests of fairness outweighed technical procedural delays. Key Reasoning: The court held that where actual justice and technical legal grounds conflict, substantive justice should prevail, particularly when delay was neither willful nor mala fide. The petitioner's appeal was directed to be registered for merit-based adjudication. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.