2026 LLR WEB 948 (DELHI HIGH COURT)
Adverse inference for non-production of muster roll records can establish an employer-employee relationship, but does not dispense with the workman'''s separate burden to plead and prove 240 days of continuous service under Section 25B for Section 25F protection to apply.

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT - Employer-employee relationship - Adverse inference - Non-production of muster roll records - 240 days of continuous service - Burden of proof - Retrenchment - Sections 25B and 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - Petitioners, engaged as Mali/Beldar on a casual, daily-rated/muster-roll basis with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, were terminated on 26th September 1990... subscribe to read more..