1. Ramjas Foundation owned a vast tract of land measuring about 16000 bigha in the revenue estate of village Chowkri Mubarikabad and village Sadhora Khurd. It constructed various buildings on the tract of land, which were given to different persons on lease and licence basis. Several people were employed to realize the lease-cum-licence fee and maintain a record thereof as also keep accounts concerning the lease-cum-licence money realized and expenditure incurred on the maintenance of the properties and allied works. In the year 1999-2000 the land was acquired by the Delhi Development Authority, which resulted in less number of working hands being required by Ramjas Foundation. These surplus hands, numbering 78, were retrenched. The management of Ramjas Foundation computed the compensation payable under Section 25F of the ID Act, 1947 and tendered the same to the said 78 workmen, who raised the issue that the compensation paid was not correctly computed because House Rent Allowance, which forms part of wages, as defined by Section 2(rr) of the ID Act, 1947 was not taken into account while fixing the wages on basis whereof compensation payable under Section 25F of the ID Act 1947 was computed. According to the workmen Ramjas Foundation had established various schools in Delhi and also a college where they could be adjusted and in respect of which claim an extended limb made was that workmen who had been appointed in said institutions after they were appointed should be retrenched and not they.
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