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Petitioner: TOWN COMMITTEE DINGA through Tehsil Nazim, Kharian VS Respondent: COMMISSIONER WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Tasaddaq Hussain Jillani Title:TOWN COMMITTEE DINGA through Tehsil Nazim, Kharian vs COMMISSIONER
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION Case No.: Writ Petition No,11296 of 2003 Date of Judgment:2004-07-05 Reported As: 2005 PLC 87 Result: Order accordingly Judgment ORDER Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the Commissioner Workmen's Compensation and Authority under Payment of Wages Act, the law laid down in Town Committee GakharMandi v. Authority Under the Payment of Wages Act etc. (PLD 2002 SC 452) to the effect that the Town Committee is not a factory in terms of payment of Wages Act 1936 and its employees could not be treated as a person employee in a factory. In these circumstances on a second thought he added that he would like to file a Review Application before same authority. The stance taken by petitioner's learned counsel is fair. Needless to observe if such an application is filed the same shall be decided within six weeks of its presentation strictly as mandated in lawand in the light of the law laid down referred to above. ' This petition is disposed of in terms noted above.