(Per : HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D.H.WAGHELA) The appellants-employer have preferred this appeal from impugned order dated 16.4.2012 of learned Single Judge of this Court, whereby the application of the respondents for amendment of the petition is allowed so as to add a prayer clause. As recorded in the impugned order, the reliefs already prayed in the petition of the respondents is wide enough to take in its fold the relief sought to be added by way of amendment i.e. to claim the benefit of Government Resolutions dated 17.10.1988, 30.6.1999 and 8.7.2011. It is also clarified in the impugned order that the appellants herein will have complete opportunity to deal with the claims of the original petitioners and oppose the same on merits and on all contentions and objections available in law, including the ground of delay in raising the claim. Under the circumstances, it clearly appears that the amendment allowed by the impugned order is not likely to cause any prejudice to the appellants but, instead, comprehensively deal with the grievance made in the petition, which is admittedly pending since the year 1992. Under the circumstances, we do not find any reason to interfere with the impugned order, and hence, the appeal is dismissed in limine along with Civil Application.
(D.H.Waghela, J.) (G.B.Shah, J.) *malek Top