In Brief
Basant Singh and other appellants challenged their exclusion from Labour Court reference on grounds of delay, while similarly situated persons had their disputes referred without such objections. The Supreme Court found this differential treatment discriminatory. It directed the State of Himachal Pradesh to refer the appellants' cases for Labour Court adjudication, ignoring the delay objection, since similarly situated individuals had received such referrals. The judgment upheld the principle that the State cannot selectively apply delay arguments to deny equal treatment under the law.
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