1 REPORTABLE 2024 INSC 802 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No. 11709 OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP (C) No.5660 of 2023) LENIN KUMAR RAY ... APPELLANT VERSUS M/s. EXPRESS PUBLICATIONS (MADURAI) LTD. ... RESPONDENT WITH CIVIL APPEAL No. 11710 OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP (C) No.12876 of 2024) THE MANAGEMENT, M/s. EXPRESS PUBLICATIONS (MADURAI) LTD. ... APPELLANT VERSUS LENIN KUMAR RAY ... RESPONDENT J U D G M E N T R.MAHADEVAN, J. Leave granted. 2. These two appeals arise from an order dated 04.04.2022 passed by the High Court of Orissa at Cuttack1 in Writ Petition (Civil) No.2083 of 2011, whereby, the High Court partly allowed the said writ petition filed by M/s. Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd2 challenging the award dated 22.09.2010 passed by the Labour Court, Bhubaneswar3 in I.D. Case No.27 of 2007. By the impugned order, the High Court set aside the award of the Labour Court to the extent that the employee is to be reinstated and to be paid